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Show p IN If m GLAND Kggobt of Washington, D. Bks an Inference at Med-Association Med-Association Meeting. I SOME EXPERIMENTS ILgne Physician Predicts La of Laziness in Coun-ffywiig' Coun-ffywiig' to Hookworms. fo'OEDES. Cal., June 2S. "Diat Per Ie mysterious and freuk-gland, freuk-gland, in combination with t& of various diets, may exert a kftienee for large or small fam-Lone fam-Lone of the interesting infer-EiffD infer-EiffD from a scientific narrative Emcents conducted with iinice thread 'oday before the Amer-Ljicsl Amer-Ljicsl association by Dr. Iteid KYfisbinRton, D. 0. foejie iu Ifiziness in this coun,-ifoiha coun,-ifoiha hookworm also was pro-SirDr. pro-SirDr. John Colbert of Albu iX.'M., as a result of the lato I rfTolutioii. Dr. Colbert, who gd as sn expert, in hookworm i' declared that ex-rcbels af-ith af-ith it had crossed over into j(dStates to work on railroads gi hjnds. Whether they work lH saicl. they would spread the iTrorm. He added that hi re-j re-j his warning the railroads measures io reduce the dan-StfKtiOD. dan-StfKtiOD. jjg Bemarkable Effects. i uperiments with the thyroid Furat diets. Dr. Hunt said ho (irfd remarkable effects. He j-erouM of four mice for u rfioor months, and found that rcr rfcriitv 'depended upon the L idleness of the gland, tjap of tho rodents was fed Lfcl and liver. This stimulat-vity stimulat-vity of the gland and at the fc four months there were no ko'ad group, to which crackers, B.C2Z3 w,ere fed, increased to W'sinie period. Cormncal and felfly reduced the birth rate fclerouD of lour mice fed upon libit had sixty-nino young in n'tls 'Compared to the niucty-ferf niucty-ferf of the second group, fclile experiments would pro-jpir, pro-jpir, results among nil animals, ffomans, Dr. Hunt did not say. Ufoses on Hookworm. EEf Dr. Colbert's paper, there Etr addresses on the subject of fcrenn. Dr, E. E. EndicoFt of pCSL, declared that tho hook-ffrtlicm hook-ffrtlicm is widespread among' the jaltbc deep mines of northern pt'Dr. Herbert Gunn of San I rancisco said he had treated a college student who had contracted the disease while working in the mines durlne vacation. va-cation. The importance of - checking tho spread, of the disease on the Pacific coast wns urged. Practically all of the "thousands of delegates attending tho convention were present tonight when Dr. John E. Murphy Mur-phy of Chicago, the now president of the association, held Iiib official reception. recep-tion. Shrine Auditorium, where the reception re-ception was held, was pneked with visitors. |