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...carefully slit open its torso to expose the viscera. Next he carefully cut practically every sympathetic nerve in the cat's body. Particularly, he cut the nerves running to the heart and every organ known to produce a hormone - the thyroids, parathyroids, thymus, duodenum, liver, pancreas, adrenals, pineal gland, pituitary body, chorioid plexus and sexual organs...
...Republican Frank ("Chief") Haucke, another onetime State Legion head, gained local prominence. Gubernatorial Candi date Woodring defeated Candidate Haucke Nov. 4 by the close margin of 319 votes, following a campaign in which most of the color was interpolated by the Independent Candidate, Dr. John Richard ("Goat-Gland") Brinkley (TIME...
...black, has been treated successfully. Announcement of that important fact came last week from the Long Island Biological Association at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., where Professor Wilbur Willis Swingle of Princeton and Joseph John Pfiffner developed the medicine. It is a purified extract, a hormone, of the suprarenal glands.* Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic have used the extract on some 30 cases of Addison's disease. One case reacted favorably in 48 hours. Thomas Addison (1793-1860), English physician, traced this disease named for him to derangements of the suprarenal glands. Victims of Addison's disease...
...Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit manufacturing druggists, merit some credit for this discovery. Dr. Pfiffner worked for them as a research chemist. His superior was Dr. Oliver Kamm, director of Parke, Davis' Chemical Research Laboratory. Dr. Kamm isolated two hormones of another ductless gland, the pituitary (TIME...
...some lizards and other reptiles and in the larva of the lamprey, the pineal gland is on a stalk (like a crayfish's eyes) and is near the top of the head. Here it has a distinguishable retina and lens. French Philosopher Rene Descartes (1596-1650) believed: "There is a small gland [the pineal] in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions more particularly than in the other parts." Contemporaries agreed...