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...Certain other organs-brain, thymus, bone marrow, dried gastric mucosa. dried lymph nodes-exert an inhibiting action on tar cancer development...
...potency. Thus born was the modern science of endocrinology.* Since Brown-Séquard's original demonstrations more and more hormones have been discovered. They occur in the pineal gland in the middle of the brain; in the pituitary gland under the forebrain; in the thyroid, parathyroids and thymus in the neck; in the adrenals on top of the kidneys; in the pancreas at the stomach; in the stomach and intestines; in the ovaries and testicles. These hormones always work together. The pattern of their complicated interbalance makes every human being precisely what he is. The balance changes during...
...Riddle's pigeons laid golden eggs, all yolk with neither shell nor white, because he removed their thymus glands. Dr. Rowntree's husky baby rats played precociously because he stimulated their thymus glands with sweetbread extract. Then Dr. Riddle turned another neat trick by giving sweetbread extract to his thymectomized pigeons, which promptly began to lay normal, shell eggs...
...precisely what they were talking about when they reported these God-like doings in coop and cage last week. Chemists were still analyzing the substances used. But results were as clear as startling, and threw knowledge upon the gland which in cattle is called sweet bread, in children the thymus. The thymus, one of the potent ductless glands, lies just behind the breastbone immediately above the heart. Only occasion when the thymus becomes important is when, for no known reason, it grows big, causes a peculiar hoarse breathing, a continuous choking sensation (which may end in actual suffocation), or that...
...Other organs which probably secrete hormones: pineal (in the brain), thymus (back of the collar bone), liver, heart, spleen...