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...pulpit, and in a rich baritone spoke at length about the drugs which the body creates within itself. The hormones are among such drugs. Histamine and acetycholine are two subtle auto-pharmacals with which he dealt particularly. Histamine seems to be a generalized component of body tissues. Lung cells are richest with it, epidermal cells next richest. At every injury or irritation the insulted cells exude their histamine. The histamine dilates the blood vessels in the neighborhood and at once initiates healing. To illustrate, Sir Henry scratched his hand with a fingernail, exhibited the red weal which quickly rose...
...Author. Alexey Maximovich Pyeshkov (Gorki) is 65. If he had had his own way he would have been dead at 19, when he tried to round off a rag-picking childhood and 15 years of poverty-pinched wandering, by a bullet through his lung. An operation saved him. He began to write for provincial newspapers, under the name Maxim Gorki (from gor'kii, "the bitter one"), then sociological novels and plays. He joined the Social Democrats, later the Bolshevist wing, was arrested on Bloody Sunday (January 22, 1905) in St. Petersburg. Exiled till 1913, he lived in Capri, corresponding...
...examining the detail of the octoplasm, Dr. William McDougall, former Harvard professor of Psychology, found "all the appearances of the lung of some animal surgically manipulated to resemble roughly the shape of a human hand." He implied, the report states, that the ectoulasm was realy some substance held in Margery's mouth and thence extruded...
...Senator James John Davis and President Edward Eugene Loomis of Lehigh Valley Railroad, of appendicitis in Pittsburgh and Sayre, Pa.; President Herbert Nathan Straus of Newark's L. Bamberger & Co. department store, of heart trouble in Manhattan: Dancer Jansci ("Jenny") Dolly, of three broken ribs, a pierced lung and lacerations (motor accident) in Bordeaux...
...shotgun went off accidentally. Carried from the field through swamps and thickets on a litter of branches and gunnysacks, he was taken to a Savannah hospital where it was found that the charge had blown away part of a rib and collarbone, lodged 100 pellets in a lung. He was expected to recover...