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...woman) increased a person's metabolism by 30%, made him half again as lively as before getting the dose. This sluggard's prodding has been kept up for three months with no ascertainable discomfort or injury to the people experimented on. An equivalent dosage of thyroid gland, another dissipator of indolence, would have made the experimentees irritable. Dinitrophenol caused no nervousness, anxiety, trembling, hunger or palpitation. It raised neither temperature, respiration nor pulse...
...thyroid route to slimness was all right for Diego Rivera who had a doctor watching him like a mother hen. But it is a risky business, just as unsupervised dieting is risky. Obesity is not a simple condition always due to gluttony or laziness. Endocrine glands may be out of order. A poor thyroid may not keep metabolism spurred. Poor sexual apparatus causes a peculiar pudginess and a warped pituitary gland an odd flabbiness. Dieting and/or exercise unaided by doctoring cannot put those glands back in kilter...
...these is an adrenalotropic hormone. When the pituitary gland fails to send enough adrenalotropic substance through the blood, then another set of glands, the adrenals, which are essential to life, wastes away. But the exact relation of hormones of the two glands is not yet clear...
...pituitary gland, of which Dr. Evans is the master, is only one of nine organs positively known to secrete hormones. Of these organs, the stomach, intestine and pancreas are not ''ductless glands." "Ductless glands" are the pituitary, the thyroid and the parathyroids (they lie in the neck), the adrenals (one rests on each kidney), the ovaries and the testes, all of which came in for attention fortnight ago at the meeting of the American Medical Association in Milwaukee...
...abnormally little sugar in the blood. Most important cause of the hyperinsulinism is an inflamed pancreas. Careful adherence to a diet low in starches and sugars and high in fats will control mild cases. In more severe cases, as in severe goitres, a surgeon must remove part of the gland. Pancreatic surgery is much more difficult than thyroid surgery...