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...Paul Niehans, a stony-faced, ramrod-straight Swiss physician told it, his theory and practice of "cellular therapy" sounded plausible enough. Thirty years ago he had begun transplanting parts of animals (glands, and organs such as liver and kidneys) into human beings to correct dwarfism, tetany,* and other disorders resulting from underactive glands. But in 1931 he was confronted with a woman dying of tetany and too weak for the operation. So Niehans injected a mass of cells from the parathyroid gland of a freshly slaughtered calf...
...Talbot, now associate professor of Pediatrics at Mass. General, has been investigating hormones and other gland secretions, including ACTH, and their effect on body growth. He has also dealt with obesity and dwarfism in children...
Progeria is a kind of dwarfism, probably caused by an abnormality in the front part of the pituitary gland where the growth hormone originates. Doctors think that progeria may be an exaggerated form of ordinary pituitary dwarfism, which merely makes people small without making them senescent. There is no known treatment for the disease, but the doctors are keeping Paul as healthy as possible with vitamins and glandular extracts...
...speech of about five minutes duration. Hoffman will then give his part, "The Need For a New Credo," in which he will bring out the present day necessity for new set of beliefs and possible revision of Christian morals. This will be followed by Futcher's part, "Dwarfism and Gigantism," dealing with effect of the pituitary gland on human growth. These two topics follow the usual policy of having one touching on contemporary life and standards, and the other on a subject of learning of general interest. Last year there were four parts including the Latin greeting, and the reduction...
Medicine has neglected the study of dwarfism. Stature of four feet has become conventional demarkation between normal and little people. Midgets are well-proportioned dwarfs. True dwarfs have big heads, shoulders, chests and buttocks, short extremities. Causes of dwarfism include heredity, disease of the thyroid, pituitary or kidneys, disturbances in the changing of cartilage into bone, or essential infantilism. If Europe produces more dwarfs (and midgets) than the U. S., the explanation may be with Europe's greater population (550,000,000 to 122,775,000 which statistically allows for more freak births. Dysfunction of glands similarly causes gigantism...