Word: glands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...according to the theory, if the energy of the glands is deflected from the manufacture of spermatozoa then there remains energy to produce hormones in magnificent quantity. In the male the gland can be blocked off and the escape of the spermatozoa prevented very easily-a slight incision, scarcely more than a scratch, into the conveniently accessible scrotum, a tying off of the two-foot long vas deferens of one or both of the testes, and the job is done. Thus reproduction potentiality is mechanically stopped in half or in full. Sexual continence, of course, gives approximately the same beneficial...
...Harvey Gushing of Harvard (famed author of The Life of Sir William Osier) announced his discovery that the pituitary gland (at base of brain) is regulator of the body's water supply; when the gland's functioning was suspended, all control was lost over liquid secretions...
...emptying every six hours, but by habit we retain its contents 24 hours. The results, as I say, are ulcers and cancer. The products of intestinal toxemia are absorbed and we have filthy blood, and there are a host of resulting ailments. This poisoning causes enlargement of the pituitary gland, the thyroid gland, and, I think, the adrenals. The organs degenerate...
...Commissar of Health, has been troubled by the thought that Lenin is dead, Trotzky is greying and the Soviets are not producing new brain power at an overwhelming rate. Seeking a remedy for this state of affairs he was last week reported to have visited Dr. Serge Voronoff, French gland specialist, and to have "assisted at a successful rejuvenation operation performed upon Klara Zetkin," 68, famed "Grandmother of German Communism" and member of the German Reichstag...
Prostrate gland** (Prostate gland...