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...Gland Trouble. When animals are overcrowded, says Hoagland, their increase often slows down even when they have plenty of food. Horrible things happen among jammed-up flour beetles. Females destroy their eggs; they turn cannibalistic and eat one another. Males lose interest in females, and though plenty of flour is left for food, the beetle population reaches a statistical plateau...
...average American, liver is for wurst. But to 47.6 million Frenchmen, le foie - when it is not gras - is the precious, pesky organ that regulates their lives. When a Frenchman exclaims, "Mon foie!", his cry from the gland wins instant sympathy, even in a Place de la Concorde traffic jam. Depending on whether it is swollen, too hard, too tender, congested, enrheumed or, as the French say, "intoxicated" from a surfeit of rich food, the liver is blamed for virtually every physical malfunction from ingrown toenails to inadequate amatory performance...
...assuage the Gallic gland, French men gulp some 7,000 varieties of patent medicines - notably, Les Petites Pilules Carters Pour Le Foie - as well as treating it to massage, hot baths, compresses, radioactive water, herbs, fasts, purges, exercises, and injections, naturally, of liver. Says an Anglo-Saxon doctor who has practiced for many years in Paris: "I have never examined a Frenchman who did not believe that he had liver trouble." Undoubtedly, the Frenchman's liver takes a worse beating than any other variety on earth, except that of the geese they force-feed for foie gras. The French...
Some cures, such as gulping vile-tasting mineral water at a spa, seem worse than the disease. On the other hand, as Soubiran rhapsodized, the liver after all is a "gland more precious than others, which regenerates the blood, stores vitamins, eliminates toxic and waste materials, manufactures reserve sugars, distributes alimentary fats, manufactures iron, assures normal blood coagulation, and controls the functioning of the sexual glands." The liver, he concluded, "is a friend which one must know how to care for. Is it not the liver which controls your sentimental life and your figure...
...Brusch, a general practitioner who operates a medical center near City Hall, also speaks for the anti-fluoridationists, but is not affiliated with any organization. Claiming that fluoride ("a poison more deadly than arsenic") can have deleterious effects on the nervous system, the circulatory system, the bones, the thyroid gland, the liver, the kidneys, and the heart, Brusch bases much of his argument on the difficulty of regulating one's daily intake of the chemical...