22 GLANDS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE 



taken to the operating room, the thyroid gland re- 

 moved from the animal and transplanted into the 

 neck of the child." 



I submit that this is excellent material for a 

 novel, play or "movie." 



As I write this paragraph I am informed that 

 J. R. Brinkley, M.D., C.M., Se.D., Chief Surgeon, 

 Brinkley-Jones Hospital and Training School for 

 Nurses, Milford, Kansas, graduate of the medical 

 department of Loyola University, who has travelled 

 "all over the world" that this same doctor has 

 completed a 96-page book on the Goat Gland Trans- 

 plantation. Dr. Van Buren, reviewing the book 

 for the New York Times, says : "A fair commen- 

 tary on this book, I should say, is that one of its 

 outstanding features is its delightful naivete." 



Is the absence of hormone responsible for cre- 

 tinism? The very fact that administration of thy- 

 roid extract causes recovery in the case of cretin- 

 ism, a specific disease, points to the presence of 

 some hormone in the thyroid that is responsible 

 some substance, then, that reaches the other organs 

 of the body by means of the blood stream. Unfor- 

 tunately for the welfare of the community, the 

 other ductless glands do not exhibit this specificity 

 to the same marked degree. With them the situa- 

 tion that arises is often of a character so compli- 

 cated as to baffle the sharpest intellects of the 

 medical profession. 



