Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approved New York's tabloid Daily News, as well it might. Mrs. Watriss' precautions frustrated the photographers of every paper in town except one. The irrepressible Daily News came out with the whole business- Brenda greeting Elsa Maxwell, Brenda & mother greeting billowy Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, even Brenda being kissed by an unknown youth-all over the front page and across a centre spread...
...Mother Love. Six years ago, by a repeated complicated procedure called "isoelectric precipitation," the Riddle laboratory crew obtained a pituitary substance which did not noticeably affect the thyroid or the sex glands, but which had a marked effect on the mammary glands. It started milk production not only in normal female guinea pigs but also in spayed females and males. In pigeons it thickened the crop sac, which provides a liquid ("pigeon milk") with which pigeons feed their young. Riddle called this new hormone prolactin...
Prolactin caused chickless hens and virgin rats to mother chicks and ratlets with great affection. This earned prolactin the nickname of "mother love" hormone. The implication of the discovery was that mother love, though doubtless fortified and colored in women by training and tradition has a physiological basis in a chemical substance-probably large protein molecules. (Dr. Riddle found that prolactin and other front-lobe hormones are disintegrated by trypsin, an enzyme which has the special property of "digesting" proteins...
Clinicians have given prolactin to human mothers to stimulate milk production. Result: some successes, some failures. In the failures, however, the mammary tissue of the mother was usually itself deficient. The job of preparing the mammary tissue for nursing seems to belong to the sex hormones estrone and progesterone. Prolactin's job is to start milk secretion after the breasts are ready...
...Field III, 45, Chicago department store scion; and his third wife, Ruth Pruyn Phipps Field, 32; a daughter; in Manhattan. The baby (their second, her fourth, his fifth) was expected to become an aunt shortly, since her half-sister, Mrs. Anthony A. Bliss. 21, was due to become a mother...