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Died. Dr. John Richard Brinkley, 56, Kansas' goat-bearded "goat-gland" medico-politico; of heart disease; in San Antonio. He exploited the desire of age for youth's potency, peddling a gland emulsion and grafting goat glands at his "rejuvenation clinic" in Milford, Kans. In his heyday he had three yachts, several raudy limousines, decorated himself with diamonds, employed 50 secretaries, took in a reputed $1,000,000 a year. He sold prescriptions over the air from his own radio station, broadcast diagnoses, threw in a little preaching. After Kansas revoked his license to practice...
...substituting "nothing" for "all," does not appear. Kipling's "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke" is in its proper place (under Cigar, not Woman) but e. e. cummings' acerb switch ("For a bad cigar is a woman but a gland is only a gland") might well have been cited, too. Under the opinions about "men of mark" Mencken fails to mention Mark Twain's famous "Just that one omission alone[Jane Austen's books] would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn...
Explained Newark, N.J.'s famed Medical Examiner Harrison Martland: Margaret, apparently healthy, had a disturbance of the pituitary gland, one of the main regulators of water balance. While her sister and brother who also played saloon were able to excrete large quantities of water normally, Margaret's lungs became waterlogged, her blood diluted, her heart paralyzed...
...week in the U.S. from England. U.S. sheep usually ovulate and are fertile only in the fall, can produce but one crop of lambs each year. But they can now be made to ovulate a second time when injected with an egg-ripening hormone produced in the anterior pituitary gland near the base of the brain. Ewes thus treated have already given birth twice yearly at the School of Agriculture at Cambridge, England. The egg-ripening hormone was discovered by Drs. Philip E. Smith and Earl T. Engle of Columbia. It was impossible to obtain it in useful quantities until...
...Iodine, which lodges in the thyroid, eats away cancer tissue without disturbing the tiny parathyroid glands which lie underneath. In fact, said Dr. Lawrence, the entire gland can be removed "blood-lessly...