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...last week in the Journal of the A.M.A. Dr. Hans Selye and coworkers of Montreal have found that rats get the disease if they get an overdose of desoxy-corticosterone acetate, a synthetic adrenal hormone. Dr. Selye concludes that possibly an oversupply of cortin (hormone secreted by the adrenal gland's outer husk) may be to blame for human arthritis. The adrenal glands, he says, may be stimulated by glandular imbalance (e.g., women at the menopause are very likely to get arthritis), exposure to cold, emotional shock, infections...
...Lions and Dogs. Enlargement of the prostate gland occurs in most men over 50 and about half of them have some prostate trouble. An estimated 17 to 20% of men past 50 develop prostatic cancer. This also happens to dogs and lions. The dangerous gland, situated at the lower part of the bladder next to the exit, rarely gives much warning (common first symptom: difficulty in urinating) until the cancer is beyond surgery...
...lucky few can have gland and cancer completely removed. But all that can be done for most patients is to try to make them comfortable and prolong their lives by 1) operations, X-ray or radium treatments; 2) morphine and other pain-killing drugs...
...Filariasis, a worm infestation, not usually deadly, but bad for morale. Some marines in Samoa got it. In a man's blood, the filariae become very slim worms from one to two inches long, may do little harm; but if they plug lymph-gland ducts, may cause elephantiasis (huge swellings) in scrotum or legs. For some unknown reason the filariae rarely appear in the circulating blood except between the hours of 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. The larvae are carried by ordinary U.S. mosquitoes. As there is no cure for the disease, the only recourse is mosquito control...
...Thiouracil is a white powder with a bitter taste which two groups of Boston doctors are using successfully to relieve the fast heart rate, shortness of breath, nervousness and shakiness of patients with overactive thyroid glands. The doctors think the drug acts by preventing the gland from making too much hormone...