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Primitive people from time immemorial have eaten the hearts, livers and testicles of ferocious beasts and valorous enemies. Believers in sympathetic magic, they sought thus to acquire strength and bravery. Scientific minds saw no sense to this until about 75 years ago Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard (1817-94) concluded that such a diet somehow made men of weaklings. He sought the reason and found a testicular secretion which in infinitesimal amounts did what the whole gland could do. That potent quintessence came to be called a hormone. Other glands in the body were soon found to produce secretions...
...Paul, Mrs. Martha Nasch swore that for seven years she had not eaten a mouthful, drunk a drop, slept a wink...
...nature of hunger and reactions of animals to various conditions of light and situation. About 200 rats, 15 cats and kittens, a pair of squirrels, and about 40 salamanders are regularly kept and a pair of monkeys were added last year to the collection. There is also a moth-eaten stuffed tiger whose tail is at present in the process of decay that was, according to one of the professors, rescued from the rubbish heap of the University Museum and is now used as a hat rack by the students...
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...human beings know pain, is wholly absent from the experience of invertebrate, or even reptilian, contestants in the struggle for existence. Alfred Russel Wallace, co-promulgator with Darwin of the theory of evolution, even suggested that among some of the lower forms of life the process of being eaten might be mildly pleasant...