Word: glands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dignified blond man climbed to the witness stand in the Del Rio, Tex. court house, stroked his goatee with a white, diamond-starred hand and announced:"I am the man who originated the goat gland operation." It was Dr. John Richard Brinkley, famed Kansas "rejuvenator", who for the fourth time was suing Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association's publication Hygeia. Dr. Fishbein, who at the moment had his back turned on Plaintiff Brinkley, appeared unconcerned over Brinkley's demand for $250,000. Last year in Hygeia Dr. Fishbein described Brinkley as a "quack...
...kidneys or brain. Adolescents may have cancer of the bones or connective tissue, especially in the legs and arms. Cancer of the uterus or breast occurs in women at menopause, but cancer of the stomach or intestine rarely occurs in women under 50. Cancer of the prostate gland usually attacks only old men. Cancer of the skin may appear at any age, but most skin cancers are found in old persons...
...autopsy Assistant Medical Examiner Charles Herman Hochman reported that he had found malformation of the cerebellum (section of the brain controlling movement) as well as an undeveloped thyroid gland, and an enlarged thymus. The thymus gland is found only in young children, normally disappears at adolescence...
...pituitary spurs other glands to produce hormones of their own, and in some cases these secretions may return to act on the pituitary. Thus primary, secondary and tertiary responses can be traced to the gland...
...other laboratories. Dr. Bates, who took part in the original discovery of the hormone, has specialized in this "biological assay." Dr. Schooley has worked out a pituitary removal technique for pigeons, going in through the pharynx at the back of the throat, which leaves the back lobe of the gland intact so that almost all the birds survive the operation...