Word: gland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diabetes. "Hell," he observed, "for all I know about diabetes 15 minutes would be enough." He had known even less than that about it the October night in 1920 when he sat down to brush up for a lecture to students next day. He knew, of course, that a gland called the pancreas is involved. He read that a German named Langerhans had found in the pancreas little patches of specialized cells, called the islands of Langerhans, and that autopsies on diabetics showed that these islands were degenerate...
France Forever was founded last June 29, eight days after the Franco-German Armistice, in the Manhattan apartment of Dr. Albert C. J. Simard, fashionable gland specialist and then president of the French War Veterans in the U. S. Other founders were General de Gaulle's representative, Jacques de Sieyes, who is president of Patou (perfume); Maurice Garreau-Dombasle, longtime French commercial attaché in Washington; Captain Roger Etienne Brunschwig, founder of the French "Broken Faces"; Frédéric G. Hoffherr, Barnard and Columbia professor, who became France Forever's publicity director. France Forever is General...
...International Physiological Congress in Stockholm, some 15 years ago, Monkey-Gland Specialist Serge Voronoff presented a paper on rejuvenation. Ajax denounced him with prompt violence. "I know the case of a 'rejuvenated man' in the United States," he began, "who felt young until he receifed his physician's bill. Dot vas so high he suddenly felt old again.'' Voronoff stalked out in a dudgeon, swore he would never attend another meeting where Dr. Carlson was present. But Ajax got a burst of applause and an enthusiastic kiss from a bearded French scientist...
Asked if he claimed his gland transplants rejuvenated people, famed Viennese Endocrinologist Eugen Steinach, vigorously celebrating his 80th birthday in Swiss exile, twinkled, tugged his mighty beard, shouted: "I cannot make a man younger than he is spiritually or physi cally...
When Joe learned last month that he would have to have another operation on his prostate gland, he found over $1,000 in unpaid subscriptions on his books, no money in the bank...