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...Vienna last week Dr. Steinach claimed that he had completed many successful experiments in rejuvenating human organs by injecting a new gland extract. The juice, called "progynon," is reported taken from animal brains. Details are not yet available...
Pituitary Hormones. Pituitrin, extract of the hazelnut-like gland at the underside of the brain, does three things to a body: 1) it causes powerful contractions of the pregnant uterus at term (its oxytocic effect); 2) it makes blood pressure (its pressor effect); 3) it increases urinary flow where urine is scanty and decreases it where the flow is inordinately great, as in diabetes insipidus (its diuretic-anti-diuretic effect). So there must be more than one hormone in the pituitary gland, decided Dr. Oliver Kamm, director of Parke. Davis & Co.'s research laboratories. By tedious fractional precipitation...
...Dogs, Glands. Diseased glands are responsible for many blue ribbons in dog shows. The Boston bulldog with his round head, short muzzle, short legs, suffers from abnormal thyroid and pituitary glands. In man this condition produces the dwarf; the skulls of dwarf and bulldog are strikingly similar. The kindly, overgrown St. Bernard, with his heavily wrinkled forehead, massive limbs, shows a pathological pituitary gland. The same condition in man produces the enormous heavily boned circus giant. Dr. Charles Rupert Stockard of Cornell University Medical College experimented with some of these pure blooded deformities. Crossing a famous Great Dane sire with...
Rejuvenator Steinach had previously sought his elixir in the germinal glands, which he now claims have a secretive alliance with the pituitary gland. That small, oval, reddish-gray body, appended to the brain, is made up of two separately active lobes. The rear one exudes a valuable drug, which has been ingeniously injected to speed heartbeat, to increase blood pressure, or to make muscles contract. It is used in cases of surgical shock, in obstetrics, after abdominal surgery...
Last week the august patrons of Surgeon Voronoff sent him forth, upon a yacht, for eastern Mediterranean waters. Officially he was on a mission to the French Mandate Of Syria, there to improve the wool yield of native goats by gland grafting, as he has already done with sheep in Algeria (TIME, Aug.11...