Word: thyroid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pituitary seems to be the most important gland in the body. It is a reddish-grey oval mass the size of a hazel nut, and lies in a bony case at the base of the brain. Apparently the pituitary keeps all the other glands teamed up. (The thyroid keeps them steamed up.) If the pituitary gland does not supply the secretions which the body needs, doctors in some cases can remedy the deficiency by administering manufactured extracts. In case of too much ''secretion, extracts of other glands restrain the overactive pituitary. Sometimes a brain surgeon...
...pituitary gland, of which Dr. Evans is the master, is only one of nine organs positively known to secrete hormones. Of these organs, the stomach, intestine and pancreas are not ''ductless glands." "Ductless glands" are the pituitary, the thyroid and the parathyroids (they lie in the neck), the adrenals (one rests on each kidney), the ovaries and the testes, all of which came in for attention fortnight ago at the meeting of the American Medical Association in Milwaukee...
...Ballin and PI inn F. Morse of Detroit look at more than the para-thyroids when bones go wrong. The thyroid is frequently involved in 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...
Adenomatous goiters seem to be the result of alternate enlargements and shrinkings of parts of the thyroid...
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...