Word: spleening
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...Spleen. Following the address by Dr. Crile, Dr. William J. Mayo, Rochester, Minn., told the assembled surgeons of the present status of knowledge regarding the spleen. The exact function of this organ is even yet unknown, but it seems to be intimately associated with the manufacture and destruction of the elements of the blood and is therefore very important in relation to certain diseases of the blood...
...declined to criticise Harding. By January of the next year, he assailed the Administration's Limitation of Armaments Conference as a "resort to the noisy methods of a circus" and added that the Administration had "profaned Republican history ... by forsaking the soul of Abraham Lincoln for the spleen of Henry Cabot Lodge." Two months later he attacked the Administration for refusing to participate in the Genoa Economic Conference. In succeeding speeches he advocated the League of Nations, which, amon? issues, is his great and good friend. He spent two months abroad. Since returning, he has seized several occasions...
...case of complete reversal of sex in a full-grown animal was described by Dr. Oscar Riddle, of the Carnegie Institution's Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. A female pigeon was transformed into a male as a result of a tubercular condition affecting the spleen, liver and glands. While sex reversal has been frequently caused in the early egg stage, such changes in adult birds are very rare. It indicates that the hereditary basis of no bodily or mental characteristic may be considered as irrevocably fixed, and it is possible that if the study of glandular...
...have risen 200% in one province since 1913, though this is probably largely due to better diagnosis and popular enlightenment, and it is estimated that there are 2,500,000 cases in Bengal alone. The symptoms are: remittent fever, emaciation, roughening of, the hair and especially enlargement of the spleen and liver. There are several disturbances of the blood and the endocrine system...
...Banting, Best, Scott have found insulin in other tissues than the pancreas, e. g., the liver, spleen, thymus, thyroid and submaxillary glands and even muscle tissue. In fact, some of these produced a greater quantity than the pancreas. When tested on rabbits and dogs, it has had the same results in lowering blood sugar...