Word: goiter
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...almost directly proportional to brain weight: 12.15 calories per gram of brain each 24 hours. Compared with his body, man's brain is larger than any other animal's, thus puts a greater strain on his organic activities. So such ills as high blood pressure, exophthalmic goiter, diabetes are almost unique in civilized man, rare in aborigines and beasts. They are the price man pays for his superiority over other forms of life...
...higher rate of speed than diabetics. Last week, he reported a simple new sugar-timing test which he has used successfully on 250 patients. For this long-awaited achievement, he was promptly awarded the Van Meter Prize of $300 by the American Association for the Study of Goiter...
...rats was given food eaten by natives of southern India, who are puny and disease-ridden. Their menu, cereal grains and vegetable fats, no milk, butter or fresh vegetables. Not only were these rats stricken with well-known deficiency diseases such as pernicious anemia (lack of iron), goiter (lack of iodine), beriberi (lack of vitamin B), but they also developed pneumonia, pleurisy, deafness, adenoids, eye ulcers, kidney stones, gastric ulcers, heart disease, skin infections...
Bones in the Sky. Short, shaggy Dr. Charlie was a pioneer in goiter operations and surgery of the nervous system. Lacking the brilliance of Cleveland's George Washington Crile, the originality of Yale's Harvey Gushing, he ranked, by hard work and versatility, among the best U. S. surgeons...
...first few days, but this is a long-haul job. writing a daily column, and pretty soon they began to shove him back toward the goiter-cures and electric belts, as we say in our business...