Word: glands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average man today is in much the same position in regard to science. It is on this account that many tall stories about the miracles of gland-transplanting have gained popular credence...
...Diseases, "Medical Men a Sickly Crowd": "We have received quite a number of communications commenting favorably upon this bathing process [blood washing] though we received one letter from a man who stated that he was suffering from prostatitis and who claimed that the prolonged bath enlarged the prostatic gland to such an extent that ... he had to have an immediate operation. . . ." "Now there are literally hundreds of theories on this particular subject [sex determination]....If from this great conflicting mass of theories we can secure dependable conclusions, we will indeed be able to pass on to the race knowledge...
...sign of the disease is an extreme pain when pressure is applied under the rib. At operation the swollen nerve ending and the tip of the rib may be removed, and in a correctly diagnosed and properly treated case, the cure of the pain is immediate and permanent. Thyroid gland. In the surgical section also, Dr. George W. Crile, Cleveland, discussed the present standing of knowledge of the thyroid gland. The abnormal conditions for which physicians are called include increased secretion from the gland, lessened secretion and abnormal growths. In the case of lessened secretion physicians treat the condition...
Representative John Joseph Kindred of New York was summoned South. Eight monkeys had escaped from his monkey farm. He is a doctor, is raising monkeys purely for experimental purposes in gland transplanting. Congressmen laughed, but Dr. Kindred, like Ponce de Léon set out for Florida...
...Forum for May appeared an interview from Dr. Serge Voronoff, Russian surgeon of Paris, so-called " monkey-gland man" (TIME, July 30). One Armstrong Perry,-* agitated by "the doubts expressed by physicians before and after Voronoff's demonstration at Columbia University" and by "the flippant comments of unthinking critics," journeyed to Paris and to the gate of "the restful garden in which goldfish swim in transparent waters under rose bushes and leafy trees." He found Dr. Voronoff to be "tall, slender, dark, magnetic." Said the Doctor: "You should understand that every physician attends school for many years. His professors...