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Duration, Not Intensity. Professor Bissonnette concludes that all this proves that the pituitary gland, which lies at the base of the brain, is affected by light transmitted by the optic nerve. He points out that if an animal's optic stalk (connecting the eye and the brain) is cut, the animal will change its breeding season. He also found that the intensity of light seems to make little difference; what counts is its duration. The pituitary gland apparently is also stimulated by color: red light, for example, moves starlings to mate more than any other...
...heart lines," "head lines" or "life lines" in her book. The form of the hand is her best clue to heredity, temperament, mentality and talents. The hands of children usually resemble those of one parent, sometimes a child will inherit one hand from each. An underdeveloped thyroid gland causes small, fat, broad hands, white and flabby, and a personality that is kindhearted, open-minded but unstable and lacking in concentration. The overdeveloped thyroid gives a long, bony hand, with thin bony fingers and an active, vivacious personality...
People get fat from overeating not from glands. This blunt statement was made last week in the leading U.S. gland journal (The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology) by Stanford University's Dr. Windsor Cooper Cutting. As cautious as the next doctor, Dr. Cutting offered no pat explanation of why people overeat. Wrote he: "Certainly the girl disappointed in love may take to candy, or a mother may teach her child to stuff himself, but no such obvious cause is present ... in most obese persons." Dr. Cutting suggested that overeating may be caused by "some psychologic drive which requires satiation...
...Caesarean sections were done three times during my 18 months in the service with 100% fatality. . . . Thyroid operations were preceded by doses of opium or digitalis or both. In many cases a resection [removal] of the entire gland was done. I, personally, plead guilty. . . . The operation was a very easy one-a complete resection of both lobes and isthmus, with the usual speedy outcome-death within 24 hours...
Died. Max Oser, 65, Swiss riding master whose marriage to Mathilde McCormick hit the nation's front pages in 1923; of heart disease; in Gland, Switzerland. His bride-to-be, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, daughter of Harold (harvesters) McCormick, was 16 when she announced they would marry; Oser was 44; he was suspected as a fortune hunter, and mother-in-law Edith withheld her blessing for six years after the marriage. The Osers and their two children, new 17 and 15, lived quietly in Switzerland rarely visited...