Word: symptoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...borrowed $500, paid it to a "fixer," got nothing in return. To District Attorney William F. X. Geoghan of Brooklyn last week went the affidavits, with full confessions by President Izzicson and four other ringmen. But The Public & The Schools was suspicious: "[Racketeering] was directly caused by the primary symptom of belief in political manipulation of the schools. The belief of political manipulation of the schools was caused by-what? Well, it is the precise answer to this question which . . . investigation has not revealed...
Then Dr. Charles Frederick Buckley, school physician, recognized Harold's rubbing poison ivy on his own face as a symptom of hypo-pituitarianism. When the pituitary gland is underdeveloped the victim is subject to convulsive seizures. These fits differ from those caused by brain infections or other cranial maldevelopments in that they are apt to be erratic and to manifest themselves viciously. They appear with adolescence. Endocrinologists have discovered that young hypo-pituitarians, if untreated, become very fat, sexually undeveloped. This boy was just beginning to manifest those marks. But five to ten grains of sheep's pituitary...