Word: lobe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hard-working Richard ("Young Dick") Grozier, publisher of Boston's Post, (circulation, 397,419), son of Edwin Atkins Grozier, the Post's late great Publisher, testified. He submitted a letter he had received from his managing editor, Clifton B. Carberry, ablest lobe of the Post's brain. In part the letter read...
...Giants are a nearer possibility. To create them it is merely necessary to feed babies the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland, as Harvard's bulldog was fed. Perhaps some experimenter has already, secretly, toyed with a human in such fashion. But Dr. Oscar Riddle of the Carnegie Institution's Animal Experiment Station at Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., merely told the philosophers at Philadelphia that made-to-order giants are now feasible...
...which they saw fit to keep secret until last week. Two female English bulldog litter mates were received in the Harvard laboratory. They were observed and found to grow normally. After a month a needle was thrust daily into the belly region of the slightly smaller dog, injecting anterior-lobe extract of cattle's pituitary glands. Daily the doctors compared their specimens. In a month the smaller puppy had begun to grow faster than the larger one. Soon the smaller puppy was the larger...
...Windsor, Ontario, last week, one Mrs. Jackson found a mad kitten swinging by its sharp incisor teeth from the lobe of her 5-year-old daughter Jeanette...
...body growth are influenced by the front pituitary lobe. Overactivity of the lobe causes sexual precocity, great stature, large hands and feet, culminating in the giant of the circus. Underactivity causes sexual retardation, small hands and feet, small fat bodies culminating in the true dwarf. Doubtless Dr. Steinach fed extracts of the anterior lobe to his rats. Normal people gradually growing old will take another look at the circus side shows produced by pituitary glands run riot, before they try to stop Nature's course with Dr. Steinach's serum...