Word: parathyroid
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Rickets has been ascribed to lack of Vitamin D in foods, lack of adequate sunlight, unbalance between the calcium and phosphorus in the body, disfunction of the parathyroid glands...
...want to congratulate TIME'S editor on its section on Medicine. Statements are always brief and nearly always correct. The issue of July 3 contained much information regarding the ductless glands, nearly all correct, but parathyroid tumors are accompanied by an increase in the parathyroid hormone which abstracts calcium from the bones and so leads to softening and cyst formation. Removing the tumor reduces the amount of parathyroid hormone and allows the bones to regain calcium...
Johns Hopkins' Professor Dean DeWitt Lewis, who is the new A. M. A. president, said that he hunts for a tumor of the parathyroid when he gets a case of bone cyst. The cysts "develop and the bones get softer and shorter because the diseased parathyroid cannot produce enough hormones to hold calcium in the bones. Surgeon Lewis cuts out the parathyroid tumors, cures his patients...
...cases of arthritis, although its main influence is in a general weakening of the bones without localizing the trouble. Disease of the pancreas or of the adrenals may also affect the bones. They mentioned a man who broke a leg while sneezing. Autopsy showed a diseased pancreas and a parathyroid tumor...
...newly discovered function of the adrenals which Columbia University's Professor Raymund Lull Zwemer recognizes, is the regulation of salt and water in the body. This power resembles the power of insulin on sugar, the parathyroid on calcium, the thyroid on iodine. Common salt benefits cases of Addison's disease, a disease caused by defective adrenals...