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...very apparent in the latest paintings of long-lived artists like Rembrandt and Titian." Finally, Trevor-Roper moved to a deeper area of speculation: the tendency of cubists and constructionists to represent nature in rigid geometric patterns, he said, may be explained by pressure on the pineal gland behind the eyes...
...November Hilda entered the Maternity Hospital as the patient of Obstetrician Rolando Colareta, underwent examination by a team of 16 obstetricians, gland specialists, radiologists, psychiatrists and general practitioners. They reported her to be normal, only a little older-looking than other girls...
Psychiatrists who have noted that thyroid gland disorders may go hand in hand with mental illness have been baffled in their efforts to chart precisely which disorders produced what effects. A Manhattan group last week made a promising progress report to the American Psychiatric Association concerning triiodothyronine (known as "T3" among hormone specialists), by far the most potent of all thyroid hormones and their derivatives...
Descartes believed the pineal gland was the seat of the soul, and doctors later thought it was man's third or inner eye. The pineal (from the Latin word for pine cone, which it resembles in shape) is a small gland attached to the midbrain...
Main difficulty is that it takes the pineal glands of 15 steers to make one day's dose for one patient. With only small quantities available so far, Dr. Altschule estimates that it will take at least two years to get a firm verdict on the extract's value. Meanwhile, he is testing a preparation from the same substance to be taken by mouth, and chemists are hoping to synthesize it. Exactly why any substance from the pineal gland should have this effect is just as mysterious as oldtime speculation about the clairvoyant third...