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...secretions to the reproductive functions is beginning to be understood by biochemists and physiologists. It is known that a very delicate acid-base equilibrium is essential for conception. This equilibrium is very easily upset, and nothing seems to affect it more quickly and decisively than psychological disturbances. . . . The thyroid gland is especially prompt in its reaction to psychological stimuli. Its secretions, containing thyroxin, are produced during normal sexual intercourse in such abundance as almost to constitute an eruption. This energetic secretion of thyroxin would appear to be an essential preliminary to conception. Inhibiting the function of the thyroid by emotional...
...true hermaphrodites, which are very rare, there are glands of both sexes, either ovaries and testicles or a mixed gland called an ovario-testis. In a case which came to the attention of William Blair- Bell of England, a girl of 17 began to develop masculine characteristics. Examination disclosed an ovary on one side, an ovario-testis on the other. Eight months after the mixed gland was removed, the girl resumed her feminine appearance almost entirely...
...obliged to rent office quarters and live at the homes of his friends or at a hotel. Nor is he any longer the Westerner on Horseback who used to canter through Washington's Rock Creek Park. He has not ridden since he had an operation on his prostate gland at Johns Hopkins in 1933. His home is nine rooms in a large apartment building on Connecticut Avenue. Unless he borrows his wife's 1931 La Salle, he strolls to his office about 11 o'clock each morning. In the long corridors of the Senate Office Building...
...large and white as that of his friend Monet, and evening clothes of black velvet, he was idolized by young Bohemians of the 1890's, loved to preside at the Impressionists' monthly dinners in the café Riche. He died Nov. 13, 1903 of an abscessed prostate gland...
Robert Wadlow's giantism is due to dysfunction of the small, chestnut-like pituitary gland, which lies under the front part of the brain. Among the many results which follow pituitary disorder is muscular weakness. Vast Robert Wadlow must move slowly and deliberately, lest he drop things or stumble. At Shurtleff College, where he is a freshman, he ranks well above the average. His best subject is German. When he graduates he expects to become a lawyer...