Word: glandularly
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...gradually loses strength. This may keep up for years. Symptoms range all the way from mild backaches to bone and nerve infections, heart disease, insanity. Hardly an organ in the body is safe from invasion. Victims of brucellosis may be suspected of having tuberculosis, meningitis, arthritis, influenza, glandular disorders. Dr. Harris' five-year-old daughter, who suffered for many months from serious kidney trouble was primarily sick with brucellosis. Although it maims its victims, brucellosis seldom kills them...
Newshawks (whom he hated) and col leagues last week recalled some episodes of Sir Frederick's turbulent career. He was a stubborn man of strong feelings, sudden temper, trenchant speech. After insulin was discovered in 1921, Biochemist James Bertram Collip was called in to polish up the glandular extraction technique. The stuff began to be called "Collip's extract." Banting leaped on Collip in the university halls, threw him down, banged his head on the floor, bellowed: "So, you will call this 'Collip's extract,' will...
Eating. Everybody knows the timid, sluggish, clumsy, socially maladjusted type of fat child. Usually glandular disturbances have taken the blame. But Dr. Hilde Bruch of New York thinks that mollycoddling mothers are often the answer-mothers who forbid their children normal exercise and play for fear they will get hurt, who baby them beyond their needs and age. Such children do little, eat a lot because they have little else to do-a double promoter of obesity...
...seen 96 cases of "glandular fever," so he wrote a paper describing the new disease, presented it before the county medical society. His elders scoffed at him, said he was making a great fuss over ordinary "biliousness," or influenza...
...barbershop one day Dr. Korell fell to talking with Professor Charles William Pavey of Ohio State Medical School. He mentioned his experience with glandular fever. Dr. Pavey recognized the disease as infectious mononucleosis, described in 1886 by the Russian Nils Feodorovich Filatov, in 1889 by the German Richard Pfeiffer. Dr. Korell was the first...