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...last week marched Mexican troops on business. Next day thousands of U. S. radio-listeners set their dials for Villa Acuna's station XER, got nothing but a hum from across the Rio Grande. Mexico had slapped an angry hand over the mouthpiece of "Dr." John Richard ("Goat Gland") Brinkley, onetime Milford, Kans. rejuvenator and nostrum seller...
...idea that both diabetes and high blood pressure, instead of deficiency diseases, are actually the result of too much activity by the pituitary and adrenals, with the pituitary gland probably the worst offender of the two. It is also our idea that carbohydrate metabolism is controlled by a balanced mechanism consisting of the pancreas, the pituitary and the adrenals. . . . This flatly contradicts the orthodox theory and treatment now commonly used, which is based on the opposite notion that diabetes is caused by a deficiency of gland secretions in the pancreas, thereby causing a fatal increase in the normal sugar content...
...Stone's work endures because he acclimatizes tissues before he fixes them in their new home. To acclimatize new gland tissue, Professor Stone takes a quantity of the patient's blood, drains out the serum. The serum, placed in proper containers under proper conditions, becomes a culture medium in which the gland tissue to be grafted is placed. The gland tissue gradually becomes accustomed to the serum, and thus to the biological character of its owner-to-be. When Dr. Stone finally fits a thyroid or parathyroid graft into a new body, the graft suffers no shock, takes...
Transplantation of tissue is no new thing. But, before Dr. Stone's work, skin was the only graft which took with regular success. Gland and other tissue grafts quickly died, because they were a foreign substance in the patient's system. The patient then needed another operation or was obliged to go on a life-long regime of drugs...
...stepped a bibulous Bohemian stared in his face, remarked: "Did anyone ever tell you how much you look like that awful guy, Hoover?" To a Manhattan newshawk Actress Dorothy Cheston-Bennett, relict of Novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett (TIME, June 1), exclaimed: "Did you ever think about gland conditioning? And how soon it may be within our power to choose our character as we choose our clothes? Of course, its depressing to think that we women may choose them with as much obedience to fashion and uniformity as we do hats and dresses. Are egos being worn long this year...