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...they reported these God-like doings in coop and cage last week. Chemists were still analyzing the substances used. But results were as clear as startling, and threw knowledge upon the gland which in cattle is called sweet bread, in children the thymus. The thymus, one of the potent ductless glands, lies just behind the breastbone immediately above the heart. Only occasion when the thymus becomes important is when, for no known reason, it grows big, causes a peculiar hoarse breathing, a continuous choking sensation (which may end in actual suffocation), or that strange condition called status lymphaticus whose slender...
...want to congratulate TIME'S editor on its section on Medicine. Statements are always brief and nearly always correct. The issue of July 3 contained much information regarding the ductless glands, nearly all correct, but parathyroid tumors are accompanied by an increase in the parathyroid hormone which abstracts calcium from the bones and so leads to softening and cyst formation. Removing the tumor reduces the amount of parathyroid hormone and allows the bones to regain calcium...
...pituitary gland, of which Dr. Evans is the master, is only one of nine organs positively known to secrete hormones. Of these organs, the stomach, intestine and pancreas are not ''ductless glands." "Ductless glands" are the pituitary, the thyroid and the parathyroids (they lie in the neck), the adrenals (one rests on each kidney), the ovaries and the testes, all of which came in for attention fortnight ago at the meeting of the American Medical Association in Milwaukee...
...already clearly established that the proportion of hormones manufactured and distributed by the ductless glands determines the varying nature of the various bodies, minds and temperaments which various humans have...
Glands. To proceed intelligently with the diagnosis & treatment of disease physicians and surgeons now realize that they must have a good, working knowledge of the ductless glands, the balancing of whose hormones control the life, mind and character of an individual. Endocrine medicine is a growing specialty. Next week TIME will report the endocrine pronouncements made at Milwaukee and further will attempt to survey the present knowledge of the glands...