Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1917 — MAY ADO CUBIT TO STATURE [ARTICLE]

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Berkeley Scientists Discover Substance at Base of Brain to Make People Grow. Berkeley, Cal. —Scientists at the University of California have discovered the substance that produces growth in the human body, it wailUfe nounced. Tethelln is what they call it. It is in the pituitary body at the base of the brain, and by retarding or accelerating its functions it may be possible, according to the Berkeley sclcntists. to control the stature of human beings. Announcement of the discovery was made by Dr. T. B. Robertson, professor at biochemistry, who said that life, had succeeded in Isolating tethelin and that he believed it was the first time in the history of biological science that it had been done. ' Doctor Robertson said his experiments covered a period of four years. He said the utimate importance of the discovery made by him and his associates could nift be estimated at this time.