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...Vitamin D, the vitamin which controls the growth of bones, prevents rickets, is formed by sunlight acting on ergosterol, a vegetable substance. Chemical twin of ergosterol is cholesterol which is involved with the female sex hormone theelin. Sex hormones are intimately connected with growth, and so the "sterols" may be a foundation for all kinds of growth...
Biochemists were no sooner positive of the hormone-vitamin relationship in the growing processes, than they discovered a sterol-like substance in coal tar which causes certain kinds of cancer. Cancer is a form of growth, but unregulated. The cancerogenic coal tar "sterol" causes the same sex changes in rats as does the hormone theelin. The breasts and uterus are common sites of cancer, and many an investigator has suspected a sex hormone as a possible cause. Knowledge of growth, hormones and vitamins are becoming interlaced to the biochemist's delight. He is confident that from them...
Rickets has been ascribed to lack of Vitamin D in foods, lack of adequate sunlight, unbalance between the calcium and phosphorus in the body, disfunction of the parathyroid glands...
...Herbert McLean Evans. 50. big. shy, ever-investigating professor of biology in the University of California and director of its Institute of Experimental Biology at Berkeley. Professor Evans was the first deliberately to make giants by injecting normal animals with pituitary growth hormones. He was also first to discover Vitamin E, which is necessary for reproduction in higher animals. The past year he has been laboring, with no letup, at the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan. This week he and Mrs. Evans left Manhattan for Berkeley with a ninth, tenth, and perhaps an eleventh pituitary hormone which he and helpers have...
Other Points- The slick tongue which usually goes with pernicious anemia often roughens up, if the patient absorbs plenty of Vitamin B, said Drs. William Skainline Middleton and Adolph Hutter of Madison, Wis. Eruptions of the soles and palms often are due to infected teeth, tonsils, ulcer or other disease of the digestive tract, observed Dr. George Clinton Andrews Jr. & associates of Manhattan. A normal adult has very nearly 1/20 of an ounce of sand in his lungs. Dr. William Duncan McNatty of Chicago calculated. A coal miner's lungs contain about 1/6 oz., a zinc miner...