Word: glands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merriment. But the Vagabond, true to his nature, attacked the material--and found it with few exceptions pure gold, a few nuggets of which he will give his readers. For example, the description of some of the advertisements: "The said magazine contained a certain advertisement under the following caption: Gland Glad, Papa's Silent Partner. The aforesaid advertisements represented that the use of its product 'Brings quick animation, ready response, lingering satisfaction. If your vitality is low gladden your glands... Be a he-man'; when in truth and in fact the aforesaid representations were exaggerated and in excess of probable...
...French, at the Pasteur Institute of Kindia, French West Africa, three years ago indicated their daring to make such tests. What results, if any, they had, so far they have kept secret. Nearly three years ago, also, Dr. Serge Voronoff, gland grafter, implanted human female sex organs in Nora, happy chimpanzee and artificially impregnated her. Nora apparently conceived. But no baby was born...
Their decision: "There is some evidence to show that one of the immediate effects of communicable diseases among girls of elementary school age is a simple enlargement of the thyroid gland. However, this thyroid enlargement appears to be temporary in character. A comparatively short time, the length of which is yet undetermined, after a child recovers from a communicable disease, he is no more prone to changes in thyroid size than a child who has not had a communicable disease. In so far as elementary school children are concerned, there appears to be no ground for assuming that the ordinary...
...Vienna last week Dr. Steinach claimed that he had completed many successful experiments in rejuvenating human organs by injecting a new gland extract. The juice, called "progynon," is reported taken from animal brains. Details are not yet available...
Pituitary Hormones. Pituitrin, extract of the hazelnut-like gland at the underside of the brain, does three things to a body: 1) it causes powerful contractions of the pregnant uterus at term (its oxytocic effect); 2) it makes blood pressure (its pressor effect); 3) it increases urinary flow where urine is scanty and decreases it where the flow is inordinately great, as in diabetes insipidus (its diuretic-anti-diuretic effect). So there must be more than one hormone in the pituitary gland, decided Dr. Oliver Kamm, director of Parke. Davis & Co.'s research laboratories. By tedious fractional precipitation...