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Such are the cretins. But how few, suggests Dr. Berman, are aware of the transformation that has been wrought upon these wretches by modern Science. By furnishing the hormones, or vital gland secretion, in pill form, manufactured from the thyroid extract of animals, the village idiot has been reclaimed in thousands of cases. He (or she) rides on the trolley and subway beside you. He works at the next desk, exercises at the next machine, pours tea at any table, walks, talks, transacts, marries, yet is never detected unless somehow cut off, Antaeus-like, from the source of vitality. Cretins...
...average man today is in much the same position in regard to science. It is on this account that many tall stories about the miracles of gland-transplanting have gained popular credence...
...press recently broadcasted from Liege, Belgium, the announcement that Surgeon Serge Voronoff, famed French gland-grafter, had stated that it was possible to increase the wool crop of sheep by gland-transplanting. He added that he hoped, by repeating the process on several generations of sheep, to create a special breed unusually wool-productive. He said that he was experimenting on a flock of 3,000 sheep in Algeria...
...Diseases, "Medical Men a Sickly Crowd": "We have received quite a number of communications commenting favorably upon this bathing process [blood washing] though we received one letter from a man who stated that he was suffering from prostatitis and who claimed that the prolonged bath enlarged the prostatic gland to such an extent that ... he had to have an immediate operation. . . ." "Now there are literally hundreds of theories on this particular subject [sex determination]....If from this great conflicting mass of theories we can secure dependable conclusions, we will indeed be able to pass on to the race knowledge...
...sign of the disease is an extreme pain when pressure is applied under the rib. At operation the swollen nerve ending and the tip of the rib may be removed, and in a correctly diagnosed and properly treated case, the cure of the pain is immediate and permanent. Thyroid gland. In the surgical section also, Dr. George W. Crile, Cleveland, discussed the present standing of knowledge of the thyroid gland. The abnormal conditions for which physicians are called include increased secretion from the gland, lessened secretion and abnormal growths. In the case of lessened secretion physicians treat the condition...