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...Nobeled before. To the independent, 60-year-old Argentine, who was fired from the University of Buenos Aires by Dictator Juan Perón, the Nobel windfall ($24,460, half the prize) would come in handy. The award was for Houssay's studies of the pituitary, the tiny gland at the base of the brain. He had shown that pituitary hormones, like messengers from a general staff headquarters, control the activity of all other ductless glands in the body. He had also discovered that pituitary secretions play a part in diabetes...
...greatest charlatan in medical history," Fishbein thinks, was the late John R. Brinkley, famed "goat gland doctor," who narrowly missed being elected governor of Kansas. At one time Brinkley had three yachts, a 16-cylinder red Cadillac, diamond rings, an estate with great fountains illumined by his name in electric lights, and a $1,300,000 income from gullible patients who insisted on being grafted with goat glands (at $750 an operation). Fishbein observes that the only thing to do with "great charlatans of the Brinkley type" is to lock them up, but thinks that the public's gullibility...
...Houssay's most important work has been on the pituitary gland. (He discovered that pituitary secretions play a part in diabetes.) But he and his colleagues have also published nearly 300 reports on a wide range of medical studies. His monumental Human Physiology, considered by some the finest physiology text ever written, will soon be published in English by McGraw-Hill for worldwide distribution -the first Latin American scientific work to be given such recognition. Dr. Houssay has been honored by scientists and leaders of a dozen nations (including the British Royal Society). But in Argentina...
Brunschwig's conclusion: a man could probably survive with part of one adrenal gland, part of the liver, about 30% of the small bowel, one kidney, a few other abdominal odds & ends...
Ancient Lure. The musk deer's scent gland, according to Charles Darwin, is the product of an evolutionary runaround. Millions of years ago, the male, deer that smelled the nicest attracted the most females-and thus left the most descendants. A weakly scented male got nowhere as a progenitor...