Word: goiter
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Necklaces of amber to prevent and cure goiter...
...meetings in November will have as speakers President Conant, November 2; Professor James H. Means '07, on "Certain Aspects of Toxic Goiter," November 9; Professor Edwin B. Wilson '99, on "The Theory of Measurement of Mental Ability," November 16; and Professor James L. Gamble on "The Factors of the Food Requirement," November...
...power; and the frontal lobe of the brain, seat of intelligence, is the driver. The tempo of modern life causes the frontal lobe to drive the adrenals at too fast a pace. The adrenals overwork, and cause the thyroid to lose more power than the body can stand. Follows goiter, diabetes, peptic ulcer, heart ailments. Reasoned Dr. Crile, "If this interpretation is correct, then this entire group of neurogenic diseases should be abated or cured by removal of the thyroid, when the disease is in the thyroid group; by denervation of the adrenals when the disease is in other groups...
Theorists suggest that the present low incidence of goiters in the U. S. which the Mayos and other clinicians note, may be the result of the goiter scare last decade and the resulting exploitation of iodized salt. South Carolina, proud of its freedom from goiter, calls itself the "Iodine State," and thus labels its motor license plates...
Exophthalmic goiter is the most thunderous of the goiters. The thyroid enlarges, the eyes pop, the heart races, the nerves go atwitter. "It is," cries Professor William Boyd to his pathology classes in the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg), "as if some blast were blowing on the furnace of the body, fanning it into a condition of furious activity. . . . The disease is more or less self-limited. The fire burns itself out. . . . Many of the vital organs, particularly the heart, have been permanently damaged, and the patient is merely a wreck, and a permanent wreck...