Word: gland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands, The smith a gloomy man is he- McCormick has his glands, So sang ribald young interns, stage comedians, stag-line chucklers, when (in 1922) Harold F. McCormick, famed harvester manufacturer, had been rejuvenated by Victor D. Lespinasse, Chicago gland expert. Last week this Dr. Lespinasse, protesting that he had received "entirely too much publicity" from his services to Mr. McCormick, issued nevertheless some statements. The price of parts, he said, was coming down. When asked what parts he referred to, he made it clear that he meant the parts of that...
...have a stack of letters here," said Dr. Lespinasse, "as high as your head from men who want to sell their glands. Some of the prices are very reasonable, too. . . . There are not many buyers. When gland operations become more popular, naturally the market will stabilize...
...found that the President's son John had sat up with his grandfather all night. Doctors were summoned. Major Coupal was sent from White Court. Dr. Arthur L. Chute, Professor of Genitourinary Surgery at Tufts College, was called. Colonel Coolidge was found to have an abscess of the prostrate gland and an operation was decided on at once...
...same hormone is present in the hen, pig, sheep, cow and rat as well as woman. In fact, just as is the case in thyroid, adrenal, pituitary and other glandular products, it seems assured that the animal hormone will substitute completely for the natural secretion of the human gland...
...tail goes down between its legs. There are from 70 to 180 details of the body which are atavistic, including the muscles which sometimes can move the ears, the muscles that make hair stand on end, the appendix (which in herbivorous animals is important in digestion), the pineal gland in the top of the head where the first amphibians had an eye (probably as a lookout when they" were half buried in the mud). 3) Paleontology (the fossil record). This is the least complete evidence in man's evolution-much less complete than in some other animals, such...