Word: hypo
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Then Dr. Charles Frederick Buckley, school physician, recognized Harold's rubbing poison ivy on his own face as a symptom of hypo-pituitarianism. When the pituitary gland is underdeveloped the victim is subject to convulsive seizures. These fits differ from those caused by brain infections or other cranial maldevelopments in that they are apt to be erratic and to manifest themselves viciously. They appear with adolescence. Endocrinologists have discovered that young hypo-pituitarians, if untreated, become very fat, sexually undeveloped. This boy was just beginning to manifest those marks. But five to ten grains of sheep's pituitary...
...killed his father; Nitro Dugan, the roving yegg, who had presided at the hobo "kangaroo trial" and execution of One Lung Riley, the ex-bum who had turned railroad detective and knew too much; Brother Jonathon, glib medicine-show barker, pretentious charlatan, kindly man of the world; Hypo Sleigh, the dope fiend, under whose crazed imagination the world is like a nightmare under a magnifying glass; Dippy, the pyromaniac, to whom the lighting of a match is like a shot of whiskey; Eddie the pretty pervert, landed in jail because he has over-blackmailed the banker who supports...
...Camera Club has grown steadily since its organization last April, its total membership now amounting to sixty. The dark room in the basement of Sever hall is in good order, affording every facility for work. Developing trays of all sizes, hypo tanks, graduates, scales, wash-boxes, gas and running water, are at the disposal of members. The sink has been lined through out with zinc, making leakage an impossibility. What the club now needs is an enlarging lantern and more lockers. A small debt remains, which will probably be raised before summer, and it is hoped that an enlarged membership...