| Show I III It t II I Fireside Science Science j I IBy I By Ransome Sutton Copyright 1923 N N. N Y Y Even rJ World Pre a Publishing Co 1 I I G LANDS j jNo No one in this country has Dl I human glands more thoroughly M tha Dr George W. W CrUc Crile a professor o M surgery and some of ot his statement nt I are exceedingly Instructive ii He ten teli tell tellus us how the dhe glands work and Wha what I they accomplish Jj I I Why do we act so BO differently Wh stirred by great emotion than i 1 other times times' Because something has ha haI happe pen I causing the thyroid old gland to Iodine into the blood stream Lik Lit e- e wise in the presence of ot a fearson the adrenal glands e object surfeit h system with their secretions Oril th e. e I pro the gross phenomena of teai tea If It the glands are stimulated K b by chemicals such as strychnine al ale f hoi liol morphine and nicotine th the rn of ot excitation e I symptoms result i It mother has defective detective thyroid a gla gland eland her child Is liable Hable to have gOIterS goit Dr Crib has but that chil I dren do not acquire pro pro vided Iodine Is Injected Int into iato i th tir mothers mother's veins velna before the birth ol the child oj i The kidneys are glands which fl fir fl ter waste products out ot of the blood stream thus keeping these materials from poisoning the tha te tern The Tho hO pituitary gland Is thought b bl Sir Arthur Keith one of great physicians to be responsible the differences in for tor statue cast of features futures texture of skin ana and char acter of hall hair which the human races from one another another In Bushmen n the tte pituitary gland gian I t underdeveloped The pancreas pours about a pint of ot Juice dally daily Into the Intestine without which digestion would b ll bt Impossible Pancreatic secretions contain powerful ferments tall enzymes which cause great chem chi cal changes In partly food tood materials without themselves being changed S Many of ot the tha glands are ductless I through their walls wails they secret secrete hormones their business largely to manufacture Keith sa says say that If It all the ductless glands were rolled together the they could be carried In a vest pocket Jet W the whole body mechanism would break down 1 if these tiny bodies should fan fall to function t r Hormone is a new word It 11 1 il not be found in old dictionaries hormone is simply a chemical m me at r It stimulates activity Uy In tb th organs of the body at a a. time Thea wW work is called for Hormones arou arouse arouse the milk glands for example before belon f a a. child is born so that each new ne newborn born babe finds its nourishment 1 prepared The difference in l tion Uon geldings and I results from the presence in tin the T I stallion of hormones which COm conn from the ion glands La Lacot Lac f of ot thyroid hormones cau causes es feeblemindedness feeble i mindedness or cretinism and It tu hu I been found that an injection of hor br I mone secretions in many ca cas casts reo re re reJuvenates the patients There are no theoretical reason wh why why- the substitution of ot a a. I t ductless gland for one which nn laj ceased to too function should not hayes haTe i rejuvenating effect The recent dl covery of ot hormones may Indeed prove of ot great moment to mankind mardt Let us think of ot hormones hormone a it chemical agents manufactured manufacture within the th ductless glands and nd u 81 f into the blood stream tIes then carried by the blood to the particular lar organ of ot the body which hip hap pens to ne need stimulation Doctors do not understand the thi composition of ot hormones but are learning to utilize then them ice ItCo In cases where no othet remedy succeeds r |
