Word: parathyroids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called myositis ossificans progressiva. Extremely rare in adults, it is almost unheard of in children. All physicians know is that some disturbance of Benjamin Hcndrick's metabolism has let increased amounts of calcium seep into his muscles and bones. Some think the disturbance may be in the parathyroid glands, which regulate the body's use of calcium and phosphorous. The disease, which produces circus sideshows' "stone men," is usually not fatal to adults, sometimes causing only a local ossification. Some physicians think there is a long chance of saving Benjamin Hendrick, whose back, thighs and upper arms...
...placed in proper containers under proper conditions, becomes a culture medium in which the gland tissue to be grafted is placed. The gland tissue gradually becomes accustomed to the serum, and thus to the biological character of its owner-to-be. When Dr. Stone finally fits a thyroid or parathyroid graft into a new body, the graft suffers no shock, takes firm and lasting root, grows and supplies essential hormones. In the Stone technique whole glands are not necessary for grafting. A few strong cells suffice, and their surrender causes the donor no discomfort...
...large significance to all sufferers from subnormal thyroid or parathyroid glands was last week's news from Johns Hopkins where Professor Harvey Brinton Stone has developed a method of cultivating grafts so that they take lasting hold in a new body. Thyroid and parathyroid happen to be the material which furnished him spectacular results. No longer did his hypothyroids and hypoparathyroids need glandular extracts. His method may apply to all kinds of tissue. Possibly diabetics and other glandular sufferers can get similar relief...
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...