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...Spot and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality makes the case for the existence of a bean-shaped erogenous zone in women; when this spot is stimulated by deep pressure, it produces vaginal orgasm, distinctly different from clitoral orgasm. The spot amounts to a "female prostate gland," say the three authors, Alice Kahn Ladas, a New York psychologist; Beverly Whipple, a registered nurse and sex counselor in southern New Jersey; and John D. Perry, a Connecticut psychologist...
Stealing two bases while the next two batters struck out, the second baseman stood at third as big Donald Thompson approached the plate. The victim of a typical fourth grade pituituary gland malfunction. Thompson already toward above his toammares and must have weighed more than the the gold infield and their for ten speeds put together...
Using a high-energy X-ray beam, researchers at Stanford administered a total of 2,000 rads of radiation (less than half the dosage for Hodgkin's disease) to the lymph nodes of the neck, chest, abdomen, thymus gland and spleen. Patients were treated five days a week for five weeks. Within a month, all the patients started to improve; six months after the irradiation, disagreeable symptoms such as morning stiffness, pain and swelling within the joints were all significantly reduced...
Answering Althusser's cry for help, "Normale Sup's" school physician discovered Hélène Althusser, 70, dead on their bedroom floor across the courtyard. An autopsy next day disclosed that she had indeed been murdered: her larynx was fractured and her thyroid gland damaged, common indications of strangulation. But before police could question Althusser, he was hustled off to a psychiatric hospital. During the past few years, he has suffered from increasingly serious bouts of depression, to the point that he was unable to teach this fall...
...Scout meeting in Dedham, Mass., one day last spring feeling sick. He had vomited, and by next morning was lethargic and complaining that his neck hurt. Jeffrey seemed to be coming down with a sore throat, but soon his temperature reached 106° F (41° C). A lymph gland in his neck swelled to golf-ball size, his lips and tongue turned strawberry, and scarlet blotches appeared on his chest and back. Jeffrey's illness: a perplexing and long unrecognized childhood malady called Kawasaki disease...