SO NOW WE KNOW !

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 186, 8 August 1930, Page 7

SO NOW WE KNOW !

Simple Process Manufactures

Heroes.

VIRTUE OF ADRENALIN.

(Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, August 7,

Herc>es are simply people with enlarged adrenal glands, according to : Mrs. M. G. Adams, lecturer in biology at Cambridge University. She told the Cambridge summer school that it had been found that when a man distinguished himself in the face of danger ■he was under the influence of a substance called adrenalin, which flowed from the adrenal gland into the blood.

"We found that when a cat arched its hack and spat fire in "the presence of a dog, it was due to the presence of this substance. If adrenalin were injected into the blood of a cat purring beside the fire the effect would be the same as if the dog had arrived. Adrenalin can be made in the laboratory by the distillation of coaltar, so now we know what heroes are made of," she added.

The adrenal glands 'are attached to the kidneys and have extensive arterial and nerve supplies. The glands have been shown to contain a body which possesses a very powerful action on the organism, and .which the glands normally secrete into the blood vessels. The principal of adrenaliil is for producing local haemostrasis and anaemia. Applied* to any mucous membrane in any part of the body it has a local bleaching effect;