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...Adrenal Glands are two small yellowish bodies, shaped like cocked hats, which fit tightly on top of each kidney. Each gland has three general parts-a coating of fibrous material, a centre (the medulla) and between the two a cortex (inner bark, as it were). The adrenals have the richest blood supply of any of the body parts. In proportion to their weight more blood pours through them in a given time than through any other organ. Their wholesome activity governs a person's entire health...
That every murderer, potential and actual, exhibits over-secretion of the thyroid gland; that every forger exhibits under-secretion of the pituitary gland; that every social misfit displays malsecretion of some gland...
...probably not a tumor process. Although it makes the victims uneasy and uncomfortable, it is rarely painful. Authorities estimate that one of three males over 60, suffers from prostatic hypertrophy. Gonorrhea in early manhood is a frequent, but by no means the sole cause.* The prostate gland nestles between the male bladder and rectum. Anatomically it corresponds to the womb. Normally it has the shape of a large chestnut 1¼ to 1½ in. wide by 1 to 1¾ in. long. It produces a thin, cloudy, slightly alkaline, albuminous secretion, the physiological function of which is to increase...
Either operation exposes the gland so that the surgeon can enucleate it with his fingernail or blunt scissors. The operation requires the best of skill and asepsis. Infection can cause more trouble than hypertrophy. Because the patients are usually elderly men whom ether anesthesia would make susceptible to pneumonia, surgeons prefer local anesthesia. The patient can be propped up in bed the day after his operation, sit in a chair after a week, be well in three weeks. Dangers against which the convalescent must guard include pneumonia, hiccoughing, gas on the stomach. Epsom salt is poison to the convalescent...
...queer thing is the fact that when a man with hypertrophied prostate dies, the swelling speedily disappears. Postmorticians cannot get the gland enlarged (for laboratory work) from cadavers...