THYROID GLANDS.
(By Cable.) INTERESTING DISCOVERIES. LONDON, February 20. . A grandson of the famous scientist Huxley, Julian Huxley, and another biologist, both of Oxford University, have made interesting experiments and discoveries concerning thyroid glands, a preparation from which caused tadpoles to develop into frogs in three weeks instead of three months. When the two experimenters imparted thyroid to an axoloti, a Mexican tadpole which has only been twice or thrice known in history, it developed into a sort of frog or salamander. Huxley's treatment brought rapid and complete development, with the addition of certain joints unknown before. American, Danish, and Czech biologists have reached similar results, actually restoring a rudimentary flatworm to youth. Huxley's latest discovery is controlling a frog's sex by thyroid, obtaining 90 per cent, males at will.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3442, 2 March 1920, Page 19
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