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...calm he may appear, when a stutterer has difficulty getting a word out he is really suffering from a spasm. The spasm is a disturbance of the motor nerves that control speech. It may possibly be set off by expansion of the tiny blood vessels in the cerebral cortex where the speech control centres are located. Last summer experimenters at University of Michigan's laboratory of biolinguistics made 24 stutterers get down on their hands & knees, talk while crawling. In every case the stuttering was notably diminished, in some cases eliminated entirely-so long as the crawling posture...
Brain Batteries. It has been shown time & again that the cerebral cortex- the part of the brain which can be educated-generates minute electrical currents at some 10-50 microvolts which can be measured with tiny electrodes, amplifiers, potentiometers. Dr. Joannes Gregorius Dusser de Barenne and Warren S. McCulloch of Yale coagulated the cortical tissue in anesthetized monkeys by a few seconds' application of temperatures of 150-175° F. This wiped out the electric currents. By selective coagulation of one or more of the six layers of the cortex, the scientists found that each layer generated...
About 15 years ago Dr. Coffey noticed the research which young Dr. John Davis Humber performed on the sympathetic nervous system and the adrenal glands. With Dr. Humber, Dr. Coffey developed a hunch that the cortex of the adrenals governed the natural growth of all the cells of the body, that for lack of an adequate amount of the cortical hormone cancers developed...
...Coffey & Humber gave crude extracts of adrenal cortex to victims of cancer. Many of them at once declared that they felt better. A very few recovered from what may or may not have been cancer ulcers...
...have treated 7,513 patients with supra-corcin, our extract of the adrenal cortex. Of these, 3,872 died before they could receive the minimum amount of treatment needed for more than relief from pain. We selected 1,040 of the others because there was no doubt that they had hopeless, inoperable cancer. Five years after treatment 53 or 5% of these 1,040 are entirely free from any sign of cancer. In another 55 cases the growths have become inactive...