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...Steinach (Austrian gland man) has also been mentioned, and outstanding achievement is notoriously no guarantee of jury actions, as witness the fact that Thomas Hardy, generally conceded the greatest living English man of letters, has yet to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, not to mention Conrad, Shaw, Galsworthy, Barrie, Bennett, Wells, while second-rate Spittelers, Heyses and unknown Scandinavians are deified. Nevertheless, should he receive the medicine prize, Dr. Banting will be in distinguished company. It has been awarded 16 times since the year 1901. In 1906 and 1908 it was divided between two men, so that 18 medical...
...laboratory in the home of a medical friend in Toronto. The experiments were then so promising that he resigned his position and shortly succeeded in securing a fairly pure extract by tying off the ducts of the pancreas so that the rest of the the gland atrophied and the pancreatic juice (the external secretion) was eliminated. His work then attracted attention at the University of Toronto, and he was offered the use of the Connaught Laboratories there. He was assisted by C. H. Best, another young laboratory man, by Dr. J. B. Collip, of the University of Alberta...
Serge Voronoff, the Russian surgeon of Paris who leaped into notoriety about three years ago with his gland transplantation experiments, came into his own at the International Congress of Surgeons in London last week, when 700 of the world's leading surgeons applauded the success of his work in the " rejuvenation " of old men. The sensational claims and misleading publicity which attend the work of seekers after the elixir of youth have obscured Voronoff's careful experimental basis and have made him suspect with conservative scientific men. But professional opinion is growing more lenient as increasing numbers of surgeons...
...stopped by removing part of their duct (called the "vas deferens"), or even by tying it off, the reproductive cells atrophy and the interstitial cells multiply and occupy the space, greatly increasing the flow of the hormones. The effect is to turn the gonad into an exclusively ductless gland. The same general results are produced as in the case of transplantation. Steinach himself makes no extravagant claims. He calls the effect " arrest within modest limits of the process of senility," and says the use of the term " rejuvenation " is unfortunate. It is merely the prolongation for varying periods...
...classic demonstration of the neurological basis of the digestive process in dogs. A normal animal, if hungry, shows increased flow of saliva and the digestive juices at the sight or smell of food. By a simple surgical operation, Pavloff brought the duct of a dog's salivary gland to the surface of the cheek and measured the flow under stimulus of food. At regular feeding times a bell was rung, and after several repetitions it was found that the sound of the bell alone, without food, stimulated the saliva. This process, known as a "conditioned reflex," has been repeated...