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...lights and enough power to send the cowboy songster's voice twanging out over a quarter-mile radius. Parked nearby was a golden brown, 16-cylinder Cadillac. Kansans whose first guess was that a new medicine show had come to town were not entirely wrong. John Richard ("Goat Gland") Brinkley, 47, nostrum peddler, was stumping every county in the State, conducting his independent gubernatorial campaign...
Females have two sex hormones. Males have been conceded but one, though male and female sex glands are analogous. Last week Dr. D. Roy McCullagh of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation reported in Science "almost but not absolutely conclusive" arguments for the presence of two testicular hormones. In a benzene solution an extract prepared from the gonads produces the well-known hormone which is responsible for the development and maintenance of the secondary male sex characteristics (beard, voice, chest hair, etc. etc.). It is called "androtin" from the Greek root andros (man). Dr. McCullagh made a water solution of the same...
Many a man, including Raymond Poincaré, Woodrow Wilson and Georges Clémenceau, has suffered from enlargement of the prostate gland after middle age. The only known remedy is surgery. In rats prostatic hypertrophy can be produced by stimulating the pituitary gland to overactivity. Dr. McCullagh found that by feeding his inhibin to rats this pituitary hyperfunction could be prevented. He concluded that probably prostatic hypertrophy is caused by 1) breakdown of the testicular cells producing inhibin, the absence of which 2) causes pituitary overactivity, which in turn 3) stimulates the androtin-producing cells of the gonads to sufficient...
...will then give his part, "The Need For a New Credo," in which he will bring out the present day necessity for new set of beliefs and possible revision of Christian morals. This will be followed by Futcher's part, "Dwarfism and Gigantism," dealing with effect of the pituitary gland on human growth. These two topics follow the usual policy of having one touching on contemporary life and standards, and the other on a subject of learning of general interest. Last year there were four parts including the Latin greeting, and the reduction this year can be accounted...
Professionally he is rated a speedy, crackerjack general surgeon operating on "anything below the throat." The cliche is misleading. He has done notable re search on the pituitary gland (in the skull) as well as on the elastic tissues of the larynx and on bone cysts. For his re constructive surgery on mutilated War veterans he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. Surgery, he remarked last week upon his election as president of the American Medical Association, "is a long, hard grind...