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...Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit manufacturing druggists, merit some credit for this discovery. Dr. Pfiffner worked for them as a research chemist. His superior was Dr. Oliver Kamm, director of Parke, Davis' Chemical Research Laboratory. Dr. Kamm isolated two hormones of another ductless gland, the pituitary (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Colored People | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

Doctors attribute his precocity to some defect in his pineal gland. This ductless gland, apparently the rudiment of a third eye,* lies in among the interior folds of the brain. Its functions are not well understood. One thing it certainly does is to inhibit sexual development of chilrendren. Because all the ductless glands of the body delicately control and balance one another's forces, when one acts abnormally as in Clarence Kehr's case, or in Harold Arnold's case (see col. 2), it incites a physiological riot. Clarence Kehr's parents plan to appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Boy-Man | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

Epileptoid types: tending to have epileptic convulsions, hysterical fits, sudden bursts of temper, head aches (migraine); diseases of the brain itself and of the ductless glands, rarely cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mind-&-Body Ills | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

...spleen is a ductless lymphatic-like gland touching the top of the left kidney. It manufactures white blood cells and, when necessary, red blood cells. Its removal does not cause serious consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Charles Euchariste de' Medici Sajous, 76, of Philadelphia, outstanding U. S. ductless gland specialist, occupant of the world's first chair of endocrinology (University of Pennsylvania), scion of French-Flemish nobility, member of the French Academy; of heart disease; in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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