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...other theory of thyroid action or goiter cause had thorough, assured adherence at Memphis last week. Speakers still felt obliged to define terms meticulously. The thyroid is a double-lobed ductless gland in the neck, which ancients compared to a shield. (Greek thyreos means shield, and the word is properly thyreoid.) But the thyroid spans the windpipe more like a pair of saddle bags. In most people the lobes can be seen as gentle swells along the sides of the neck above the collar bone. The thyroid increases in size normally and temporarily in boys and girls at puberty...
...Riley believes that most cases of migraine can be traced to malfunctions of the ductless glands, notably the pituitary and the ovaries. The hormones (messengers) of those glands, he believes, give mischievous information to the nerves which control the contraction & expansion of the brain's arteries. Consequently those arteries go into periodic convulsions. The convulsions make the headache...
...spleen, or milt, is a ductless gland 2½ by 4½ in. lying under the lower left ribs. It does not seem to have any particular secretion like other ductless glands, its value to the body is not well understood. In unborn children its chief duty seems to be to help make red blood cells. Destroying worn-out and useless blood cells seems to be its prime function after birth. It may be cut out with apparently only transient inconvenience to the person. When ruptured it must come out quickly...
...Making the gonads practically ductless by partly disabling them (TIME, Sept. 30, 1929 et ante). †Supplanting the testes by the testes of other men or animals (TIME, Sept. 15. 1930 et ante...
Adolph Roome III, 14, more than 6 ft. tall, weight 235 lb., overgrown apparently from the disfunction of his pituitary body, a ductless gland which controls growth...