Word: adrenalin
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...said to deal with the suprarenal glands. These " endocrines " affect the general vitality of the body, emotions of combat and effort, blood pressure, pigmentation, sex development. They have a " cortex " or rind, the active principle of which has not yet been isolated, and a " medulla " or core, source of adrenalin (TIME, April 4). Failure or insufficiency of suprarenal action causes various disorders, depression, neurasthenia, discolored skin and the so-called Addison's disease. The exact objective of Dr. Banting's new research is not known. He plaintively protests: " The greatest service people could render me would...
...articles, including The Secret of Autosuggestion, Glands ? the Super-Regulators of Personality, The Morality of Birth Control, Why We Love, Raising the Dead by Modern Science. This latter article deals largely with the bringing to life of a still-born child (one of twins) by an injection of adrenalin (TIME, March 3). The article is profusely illustrated with pictures of Daniel and Dorothy (the twins), Anita Grogan (their nurse), Mrs. Bertha Isaacson (their mother), Dr. Philip Mininberg (who brought Daniel to life) and of Editor Fielding himself...
...become less and less. But on the other hand the recent cardioscope is merely the continuation of the idea of other inventions dealing with surgery of the chest. The cardiograph--an instrument for recording heart-beats; electric photography, photographic magnifying of stethoscopic sounds, and the comparatively recent development of adrenalin have all helped in the medical warfare for the saving of mortal hearts, so that now this last "disease of civilization" seems succumbing to the attacks of science...
Progress in thoracic (chest) surgery has been phenomenal within the past few years, says Dr. Lilienthal. The development of adrenalin, the invention of the cardiograph (for recording heart action on smoked paper), the use of the phonograph to magnify stethoscopic sounds, electric photography of the heart in operation and other innovations have contributed to this result. But the increase of heart strain in our headlong urban life is giving the medical and surgical profession serious cause for worry. Organic diseases of the heart are now the largest single cause of death in the registration area of the United States, having...
...such supremacy will be seriously questioned by a horde of modern Methuselahs if one can ward off the most incurable diseases with poison gas, be revivified in one's failing years with fatigue antitoxsin, and be kept alive to see the turn of the tenth century with adrenalin...