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...permission, Dr. Frumkin decided to chance an operation that most doctors frown upon: he would give the colonel another man's testicle. The operation had to wait until the right donor was found, someone newly dead whose blood type matched the colonel's. The needed gland was eventually supplied by a young man killed in a streetcar accident...
Pursuing the cause of cancer, Drs. S. Lieberman, B. R. Hill, and L. F. Fieser, together with Dr. Konrad Dohriner and Col. R. P. Rhoads of Memorial Hospital, have gathered new evidence that cancer and leukemia are caused by endocrine disturbances, particularly in the adrenal gland. It is probable that glands in the cancer and leukemia patients secrete cancer-causing chemicals. A possible cure was recently reported by Dr. James B. Murphy, who stated that transplanted leukemia can be prevented from developing by injections of adrenal cortical hormones...
Nobody really knows much about the gland-made hormones which influence personality, body shape, health. But what hormones do is often big news. Last week hormones made news in the treatment of acne and cancer...
Progeria is a kind of dwarfism, probably caused by an abnormality in the front part of the pituitary gland where the growth hormone originates. Doctors think that progeria may be an exaggerated form of ordinary pituitary dwarfism, which merely makes people small without making them senescent. There is no known treatment for the disease, but the doctors are keeping Paul as healthy as possible with vitamins and glandular extracts...
...past wars the commonest causes of sterility in soldiers have been mumps, fevers, gastric poisoning, gland disorders, dietary deficiencies and severe exposure. In World War II shock and wounds from mines, torpedoes and bombs may also increase the sterility rate...