Word: kilter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...condition always due to gluttony or laziness. Endocrine glands may be out of order. A poor thyroid may not keep metabolism spurred. Poor sexual apparatus causes a peculiar pudginess and a warped pituitary gland an odd flabbiness. Dieting and/or exercise unaided by doctoring cannot put those glands back in kilter...
...generalized constitutional" school thinks that the system as a whole gets out of kilter over a long period of time. It gets so that it cannot manage itself with normal efficiency. Along comes an irritation which disables one of its parts, say the breast. The body hastily drafts its defense forces. Like Falstaff's paltry men, they are unhealthy, poorly armed. They scurry to the site of the injury, stumble hither and thither, heedless of leadership, out of control - Cancer...