Word: jungeblut
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...York. He wanted to study hormones, especially those of the pituitary gland. With him went his friend Dr. Claus W. Jungeblut. Dr. Jungeblut was interested in infantile paralysis. Both experimented with monkeys. When they took their subjects off to their separate laboratories many a monkey friendship was broken up. Not so with the doctors; outside their laboratories they discussed their respective work. In one of their discussions they reasoned thus: Dr. Engle was studying pituitary hormones, which can stimulate early sex maturity. Dr. Jungeblut was studying infantile paralysis, which usually occurs before sex maturity. Might there be some connection between...
...into the monkeys. Some of the monkeys had passing attacks of paralysis, others did not catch it at all. But all of them grew up suddenly, acquired the sex maturity of three-year-old monkeys. Those not treated with pituitary hormones usually developed paralysis from the virus, died. Drs. Jungeblut & Engle concluded that pituitary hormones, not immunity through exposure (the general theory), enable most adults to resist infantile paralysis...