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...cause. No speculation seemed too absurd. Mongolism, said some, looking at the slanted eyes of its victims, was racial evidence of "the Mongol in our midst." Others, more responsible, argued that it was caused by "advanced maternal age," exhaustion of the womb, ovarian disorders, an upset gland (any gland would do) or, finally, heredity...
...Vitamins and hormones generally have no value in increasing fertility*; the only measures Dr. Farris recommends (though many doctors differ) are X-ray treatments of the pituitary gland to stimulate production of spermatozoa...
Radioactive fading, explain the doctors, slows down the tempo of the body by reducing the amount of thyroxin secreted from the thyroid gland. The work load on the heart is thus reduced...
Outstanding among the substances which regulate body functions are hormones, and one of the most powerful of them is ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone). Secreted by the pituitary gland at the base of the brain, it directs a pair of glands above the kidneys in the production of about 30 other hormones...
...League are in the process of establishing to central storage library to take little-used research volumes off their own shelves and make a gland pool of material available to all scholars...