Word: thymus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berman carries his fluent discourse into the foundations of normal humanity, elucidating the roles played in the body's character and development by the other ductless glands?the pituitary, adrenal, thymus glands and the gonads. He pictures the glands as an "interlocking directorate," traces the mechanics of masculine and feminine, the rhythms of sex, the backgrounds of personality. He proposes that "the individual...
...Riddle also announced the discovery of a hitherto unknown function of the thymus, a ductless gland prominent in young children (TIME, June 25), which atrophies at adolescence. A deficiency of thymus in female pigeons prevents their providing their eggs with shells and albumen. If they are fed doses of dried thymus, the eggs become normal...
...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...
...three-days-old baby, unable to breathe, and kept alive by artificial respiration of oxygen, was saved at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children when X-ray treatment to reduce an abnormal thymus gland was applied under the direction of Dr. Mary Halton. The thymus is a small ductless gland situated at the base of the neck, whose functions are imperfectly understood, though its secretion or " hormone " is believed to influence children's growth and bone formation. It is present in children from before birth until puberty...
...present case the thymus was found by X-ray to be much enlarged, and appeared to interfere with the breathing. X-ray applications withered the gland, and in a few hours the baby breathed normally. Physicians are interested in the theory that thymus abnormality may be a possible cause of the death of " blue babies " immediately after birth...