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...neat little experiment reported in the Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, some Jerusalem scientists discovered that when rats are moved from a hot, dry atmosphere to a hot, humid one, their thyroid glands speed...
...doctors, with their characteristic well-why-not attitude toward new ideas, have lately been trying out a queer one. The idea: to cure people with opposite ailments by having them exchange some blood. They have experimented with the following "antagonistic" conditions: high and low blood pressure, overactive and underactive thyroid conditions, leukemia (overproduction of white blood cells) and shortage of white cells, pernicious anemia and overproduction of red cells, lack of menstruation and menstrual hemorrhage...
...reported in the American Review of Soviet Medicine last week, the process thus far seems to work in the thyroid and menstrual conditions. But U.S. doctors, who have tried similar exchanges on animals (TIME, Sept. 26, 1938), do not think much of this Russian idea. To be effective, virtually all the blood of the patients involved would have to be exchanged; and even so, the benefit would be temporary at best...
...scientists study the question, the more fundamental differences they find between men & women. Girl babies are generally born five to nine days sooner than boys; they teethe and talk earlier; their bones harden sooner; they have fewer red corpuscles and a faster pulse; they are more emotional (more active thyroid glands); they mature more rapidly. A girl sleeps more than a boy, needs less food, has a lower metabolism rate, is warmer in winter (because of better insulation) and cooler in summer...
...only one intercourse in 202 resulted in pregnancy. Infertility is by no means an exclusive matter of stopped-up tubes, venereal disease, or poor sexual development. Some other causes: diet low in vitamins or protein, poor absorption of food, too much alcohol, too little sleep, "nervousness," infections, recent fever, thyroid and pituitary disorders, wrong kinds of vaginal douches...