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...retirement, his students presented him with a large box. When he opened the box he was startled to find a 15-lb. abdominal tumor. In bewilderment he picked at the tumor, discovered, while the class roared with laughter, that it was no tumor but a cake, covered with reddish-brown icing, and surrounded with "areas of degeneration" made of jelly. Gravely and skillfully Dr. Cullen picked up a scalpel, performed an operation, gave every student a slice...
...mounting importance of Joe Strecker as a Reddish bug under the national microscope was further emphasized when, to defend him before the Supreme Court, up rose Lawyer Whitney North Seymour of the eminent Manhattan firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett. Mr. Seymour, a Republican libertarian, won freedom in 1937 for Red Angelo Herndon from Georgia's 71-year-old insurrection law. For Joe Strecker he argued that his case paralleled Herndon's, and that in view of the Communist Party's disclaimers, its members constitute no immediate menace such as the 1918-20 deportation law had in mind...
Above and behind the mouth cavity, tucked into a cradle of bone at the base of the human brain, lies a reddish nugget of tissue, no bigger than a big pea in normal adults-the pituitary gland. Galen, the famed physician of antiquity, and Vesalius, the great anatomist of the Renaissance, knew it. They thought it gave saliva. In 1783 an Irishman named Charles O'Brien died at the age of 22. He was 8 ft. 4 in. tall. A curious physician bought his body for $2,500, dissected the head, found a pituitary gland almost...
...pituitary was not pushed until the 1920s, when Herbert McLean Evans of the University of California caused rats to become giants by injecting them with crude pituitary extract. He dwarfed rats by pituitary removal, then with pituitary injections restored them to normal size. He made it clear that the reddish little gland was intimately concerned with one of the most important of biological processes-growth. Since then the veil of ignorance has been gradually lifted...
...parts. It is very long and solid and important-looking. It will be a wonderful place to land for an excursion sometime soon when the hand of man has more fully nurtured its interior. But ahoy! Another smaller island slips over the horizon--a different island, built of smaller reddish stones, with a sign which labels it Hemenway Gym. It has a crow's nest on top, and it, too, is yet unfinished by man's hand in the interior. Vag makes a mental note that it will make a fine camping ground for a winter afternoon and marks...