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...almost the exact centre of the human head, hanging from the base of the brain by a hollow stem, is the pituitary gland. Normally about the size of a large pea, in giants it may be as big as a hen's egg. It has two lobes, anterior & posterior. Like other endocrine glands it secretes hormones (exciters) into the blood. Doctors know less than they would like to know about the pituitary gland. They know it is intimately related to growth and sexual maturity; they believe its hormones regulate the functioning of all the other endocrines. Last week came...
...same issue, describing the "Anti-Tammany Cow," your repeated incorrect use of "udders," indicating the cow's teats, will amuse farm-raised TiME-readers-perhaps a more numerous section than you suspect. For the benefit of TIME'S editors: a cow has but one udder, the gland which secretes milk. The appendages on each quarter, from which the milk is drawn, are correctly known as teats- inelegantly but rather universally pronounced "tits," Mr. Webster to the contrary notwithstanding. I hope no newborn delicacy prompted TIME'S lapse from the correct biological description...
...medical problems. He will tell you the truth even if it makes you mad. I discharge my obligation to society when I urge you to have an examination every six months. Ninety-nine out of 100 won't, but I'm after that hundredth. Before you have your prostate gland removed send 25^ to the Brinkley Hospital for booklets...
...merchants of Del Rio, Tex., chuckled and rubbed their hands together. Kansas politicians shook with apprehension. Quack-baiting Editor Morris Fishbein of the American Medical Association's Journal cursed through his teeth. Goat-bearded, goat-gland-grafting Dr. John Richard Brinkley was at it again last week...
...Milford medical question box would be on the air daily. Last week he conducted his radio clinic, sending patients to Milford Drug Co. for prescriptions, inviting them to Brinkley Hospital in Milford for diagnosis. Mexican & U. S. medical authorities scratched their heads, puzzled over a ruse by which clever Gland Grafter Brinkley had apparently removed himself from the jurisdiction of either...