Word: glandings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five-year-old boy lay in bed burning with fever, his right groin swollen. Suspecting that this was no ordinary disease, his doctor took a sample of fluid from the swollen gland, started home to examine it. But near the house he saw something that confirmed his terrible suspicions: a batch of dead squirrels...
...soon as the victim of brain tumor breathed his last, they cut him open, slit out one of his healthy adrenal glands. Then they gave the dying woman a local anesthetic, grafted the gland in her wasted abdominal muscles, nursed her along with synthetic hormones till the graft took. Within a week the gland was functioning and the woman was well enough to leave the hospital...
...Gland Specialist John Brinkley, barely defeated (twice) for the Governorship of Kansas, once potent operator of a radio station over the Mexican border. Said William Allen White: "He will appeal to the hillbilly mind as it has never been lured before. . . . He is irresistible to the moron mind, and Texas has plenty of such!" Editor White's conclusion: Doc Brinkley...
...confused with Texas goat-gland Practitioner John Richard Brinkley, who broadcasts his nostrums from Mexico and is now running for Senator from Texas...
Undismayed after three days in Del Rio, Tex. court over his voluntary bankruptcy petition, goat-bearded, goat-gland-grafting old Dr. John Richard Brinkley emerged cheerfully with Lawyer Herbert Davis, declared he would meet every just claim among the million dollars his creditors seek...