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Then Dr. Charles Frederick Buckley, school physician, recognized Harold's rubbing poison ivy on his own face as a symptom of hypo-pituitarianism. When the pituitary gland is underdeveloped the victim is subject to convulsive seizures. These fits differ from those caused by brain infections or other cranial maldevelopments in that they are apt to be erratic and to manifest themselves viciously. They appear with adolescence. Endocrinologists have discovered that young hypo-pituitarians, if untreated, become very fat, sexually undeveloped. This boy was just beginning to manifest those marks. But five to ten grains of sheep's pituitary...
Doctors attribute his precocity to some defect in his pineal gland. This ductless gland, apparently the rudiment of a third eye,* lies in among the interior folds of the brain. Its functions are not well understood. One thing it certainly does is to inhibit sexual development of chilrendren. Because all the ductless glands of the body delicately control and balance one another's forces, when one acts abnormally as in Clarence Kehr's case, or in Harold Arnold's case (see col. 2), it incites a physiological riot. Clarence Kehr's parents plan to appeal...
...fortitude became appreciated when news seeped from the Vatican that he had been under close medical observation. Unlike his predecessors Pius XI has no archiater, or personal physician. So from Paris was summoned the great surgeon who operated comfortably and successfully on Raymond Poincaré's prostate gland (TIME, Dec. 23), and from Milan an eminent German proctologist. It has been well known that His Holiness, like very many elderly men of immaculate habits, suffers from prostatic hypertrophy. The infirmity can become painful, can cause bladder distress, uremia. The specialists decided that there was at least no immediate necessity...
Such messages from station KFKB, Milford, Kan., offer many a farmer in the southwest relaxation after a hard day in the fields. Daily thousands listen to Dr. John Richard Brinkley, goat gland rejuvenation exponent, diagnose and prescribe for letter-writing patients over the radio. Occasionally static interferes, wags say, and causes the sick to get the wrong code number for their prescriptions, to treat themselves for dandruff when they are suffering from torpid liver...
Hormone Surgery. A hormone, secreted by a gland at the base of the brain, was discovered by Milton 0. Lee of Harvard. It tends to lower combustion rate of tissue. This faculty might, he suggested, be employed to combat tissue destruction caused by the hormone of the thyroid gland, obviate the necessity for many surgical operations...