Word: gland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small gland in the neck...
...then discovered that the serum which naturally prevents cancer is produced in a small gland in the neck, and that this gland becomes decreasingly active until, at 50, it often ceases to function. Therefore, stimulate this gland. But the gland cannot be sufficiently stimulated...
...Riddle also announced the discovery of a hitherto unknown function of the thymus, a ductless gland prominent in young children (TIME, June 25), which atrophies at adolescence. A deficiency of thymus in female pigeons prevents their providing their eggs with shells and albumen. If they are fed doses of dried thymus, the eggs become normal...
Kammerer's interest in gland surgery arises from the fact that he has collaborated actively with Professor Eugen Steinach, his chief in the department of biology at the University of Vienna, in Steinach's experiments on the retardation of senility (see MEDICINE, this issue). He is a firm believer in the Steinach methods, because, he says, he has seen them with his own eyes, and "always stands with those who are unjustly attacked...
...Crile is known the world over not only as a super-surgeon, but as an incisive and original thinker in biology and social psychology. He is a foremost specialist in surgery of the thyroid gland. He has devised methods of avoiding surgical shock by a combination of local and gen- eral anaesthetics (nitrous oxide and novocaine) which he calls " anoci-association." He studied in Ohio, Vienna, London, Paris, and has won more medical prizes than he can stagger under. During the War he was a Colonel in charge of a base hospital. In peace time he is a professor...