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Cushing works so hard at raising money that some laymen complain he thinks of nothing else. His capacity for work especially astonishes his doctor, since he suffers from asthma, emphysema, ulcers and migraine headaches, has had operations to remove a cancerous kidney and the prostate gland. He eats lightly ("I have to-I bleed"), sleeps with an oxygen tank beside his bed. "It is the wolf that keeps me on the go," he explains, "particularly the wolf at someone else's door...
...group. Thousands of the body's countless proteins circulate in the blood or are washed by it, but a few are "sequestered": the fluid in the eye's lens, sperm secreted in the testicles, and thyroglobulin (an iodine-containing protein), which usually stays locked in the thyroid gland. If lens fluid leaks into the bloodstream after injury, its proteins start the antibody factory working and the body seeks to destroy the lens proteins...
...attacks the proteins in its lens. Thus injury to one eye may lead to blindness in both. Injury or inflammation of the testicles may force sperm proteins into the bloodstream, which then sets about destroying them-a process that causes temporary or even permanent sterility. If the thyroid gland is damaged or diseased, thyroglobulin may escape from its sequestered state, and a clearly defined form of thyroid disease results...
Finally, at 7:15 p.m., a bulletin signed by three doctors said that De Gaulle had been operated on that morning for "a disease of the prostate"-nature unspecified, but probably the nonmalignant enlargement of that gland which often afflicts men of advancing years. Unofficial word was that De Gaulle would be in the hospital ten days, might need another month of convalescence...
Within five days after her cycle starts (see chart), a woman's pituitary gland begins producing the follicle-stimulating hormone FSH, which travels through the blood to the ovaries, which contain about 300,000 follicles. FSH starts a few of these on a growth process that results in the production of one ovum (egg). Around the 14th day of the cycle, ovulation occurs: the follicle releases the ovum, which travels down the Fallopian tube toward the uterus. If it encounters a live spermatozoon on the way, or soon after its arrival, the ovum will be fertilized...