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...crew of the whaler Lansing were killing whales at an average rate of two per day and lashing them alongside for scientists to cut from the base of the whale brains the whale pituitary glands. After each operation, the carcass was set adrift, the small gland pitched into a barrel. When the Lansing returns, Dr. Max S. Dunn will attempt to analyze whale pituitaries into their constituent elements to discover what agency or force causes whale tissue to assume such prodigious proportions, perhaps what agency or force is the source of all animal structure and life. Possible "usefulness": a better...
...Serge Voronoff, gland specialist: "Last week I prophesied in Paris 'Monkeys will talk and men will live to be 125 years old.' I went on to relate that I have grafted glands on 1,000 human beings. I have grafted glands on sheep so successfully that their wool yield has been largely increased, 16 pounds added to their weight and their lives prolonged six years. Now I have a monkey farm at Mentone on the French Riviera where I am raising monkeys to supply the tremendous number of monkey-glands that the world will soon demand...
...declared, be cause people are learning to take better care of themselves. Said he: "The dangerous age of a woman is from 16 to 18. But the dangerous age for a man is from 50 to 55. If you can't keep your eye on them, lock them up. . . . Gland transfusion is the bunk...
...changed names from month to month. The public, including school children, who clipped out the lust-inciting ladies, and passed them around in school, patronized this pornographic press, until its non-circulation had, according to the World, reached 150,000. Venders of fake dope and narcotic cures, fake aphrodisiacs, gland extracts, revolvers and artists' equipment had gladly advertised...
...Extract the brains from the public, pickle them, put them in the Natural History Museum with a strong infusion of monkey gland, stir hard and let simmer for 100 years. Something may emerge from the mixture...