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...scientists experimented with dogs, gave some of them injections of anterior pituitary extract until their islets were worn out and their insulin content very low. Then they fed one set of animals a normal diet. Set No 2 got no food for several days. Set No. 3 got only fats. Set No. 4 got insulin and a normal amount of carbohydrates. Results: the first group developed severe diabetes; the others soon returned to normal insulin production and good health. Fasting and fat-feeding, as well as insulin injections, said the doctors, "allow the pancreatic islets to rest," give them time...
...effort to discover the cause of his attacks, the doctors gave the young man a dozen different drugs, from common salt to pituitary extract, doused him in tubs of hot and cold water, sent him running up & down 15 flights of stairs. Still whiskey, etc. would send him into his dance. Nothing would cure him. He finally packed up and went home, resolved never to touch a drop again. One thing that consoled him: his leaping great-grandfather had lived to the ripe age of 87; his great-aunt, 72, and great-uncle, 81, were still dancing around...
While Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, aristocratic friend of Adolf Hitler, still lay so deathly ill somewhere in England that physicians dared not extract from her neck the bullet she mysteriously acquired in Munich last year, her father, Lord Redesdale, turned over his 30-room town house to London's County Council for the use of slum dwellers made homeless by Nazi bombs...
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...scientists withdrew blood from an artery of a young cock, spun it in a centrifuge. The heavy red blood cells were thrown away and the clear plasma packed on ice where it stayed fresh for six weeks. Into the plasma the experimenters poured a few drops of chicken embryo extract, "a powerful clotting agent...