Word: glands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Koppanyi, still in his twenties, was a student of Dr. Hans Przibram, the great professor of experimental zoology at Vienna, and worked in the same laboratory with Prof. Eugen Steinach, gland implanter. The work of all these men is gravely hampered by lack of funds and equipment, as is generally true in the laboratories of Central and Eastern Europe today...
William Blair Bell is a prominent surgeon and professor of gynecology and obstetrics at the University of Liverpool. He has a high reputation in his specialties, is an authority on the pituitary gland, is author of several standard medical works, including The Sex Complex, has held professorships and won prizes at important hospitals and medical schools in London, Durham, Belfast. That he has not made public his discovery is because he desired to treat many more patients before submitting it to the medical and surgical professions. Dr. Bell's professional standing is in itself strong presumptive evidence...
...Eugen Steinach, Viennese gland surgeon, in an interview with a foreign correspondent of The New York Evening Post, deplores the exaggerations of popular gossip, and disclaims the implication that his operation will necessarily " create a robust flapper of any wrinkled, decripit old lady." Notwithstanding, his clinic has become a Mecca for people from all parts of the world who feel the weight of years...
...Faculty censorship has raised its snaky locks at Ann Arbor: as a result, sixteen members of the Michigan "Sunday Magazine" have resigned. The particulars vary with the point of view. The editors point to a series of faculty interventions which made their positions impossible. A scientific article on gland transference, approved by a professor, roused the final outburst which precipitated their resignations. By the other camp this article is described as intentionally repulsive and disgusting; and the editor of the "Daily", the superior of the "Magazine" is said to have asked the unruly staff of the latter to leave...