Word: glandularly
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More specific treatments, which are sometimes effective but should be overseen by a competent doctor, are glandular extracts, vitamin A, drying lotions for the skin, X rays and ultraviolet lamps...
...even the word treatment "except in an investigative sense." Some doctors thought that Compound E, even though it did not cure, might be used, like insulin for diabetes, to control the disease. Others feared that it could not be used for long without upsetting the body's whole glandular system. The argument would not be settled for a long time. Meanwhile, Mayo doctors warned that Compound E is very scarce, hard to produce, and may not be available generally until...
...fashionable theory that glandular disturbances cause fatness, Dr. Bruch told the New York Academy of Medicine, is mostly tommyrot. In a recent study of heavyweights, it was found that fewer than one in 200 had a glandular ailment...
...Postmasters from coast to coast got a Washington directive which was apparently to be interpreted according to each official's measure of glandular energy: nude calendar cuties were henceforth to be barred from the mails if they "aroused the base emotions...
Snailman Heaton fairly glows when he describes how snails have met problems that bedevil many Britons: "The snail may be slow, but it's efficient. It disposes of housing troubles by carrying its house on its back. It lays its own roads by glandular secretion. Above all, being an hermaphrodite, any snail can mate with any other.* Focusing your attention on a snail . . . is a soothing occupation-especially these days...