Word: thyroid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appendectomy uneventfully. But her quick excitability and easy fatigue did not disappear. The slightest exertion set her atremble. These and other peculiarities led Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's personal physician, Dr. Knuthsen and Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill, an Australian who achieved eminence as a London thyroid surgeon, to conclude that Princess Mary suffered with exophthalmic goitre...
Last week, after a cheery visit from the King and Queen, Princess Mary went to a private sanatorium to have her goitre out. A curving incision was made into the front of her neck. By lifting the flap of skin, the surgeon exposed the thyroid gland lying around the windpipe, excised almost all of it. He took special pains not to damage Mary's laryngeal nerves, which might cause her to choke to death, nor her parathyroid glands, which might throw her into spasms. Final step in the thyroidectomy was to bring the edges of the divided skin...
...Hayes's latest nostrum is Marmola, a tablet containing thyroid substance, which he markets over drugstore patent medicine counters as a cure for obesity. Like all thyroid preparations, Marmola may cause a user to drop dead, or cripple control his heart, unless a physician stands by to control the dosage and reduction in weight. Vainly various agencies have tried to stop the sale of Marmola. Last week the Federal Communications Commission tried its hand by threatening to take licenses away from 21 radio stations from Rochester to San Francisco, Los Angeles to Miami, if they did not cease broadcasting...
...Williams Keen, practices neuropsychiatry in Washington. He dissected 1,400 lunatics after their deaths to find out what effects, if any, their endocrine glands may have had upon their distorted personalities. He also studied the personalities of several hundred normal characters who suffered from hormonal disturbances of the pituitary, thyroid, adrenals, sex glands, etc. After all that work Dr. Freeman concluded that hormones have a preponderant role in the total energy output of an individual as well as in the harmonious functioning of his nervous system. He found little evidence that a person's endocrine glands determine the type...
Internal Myxedema. Among the common signs of a thyroid gland functioning under par are: cold, dry, rough and puffy skin; coarse, dry hair which falls out; apathetic emotions; sluggish mind. But those external signs of myxedema (atrophy of the thyroid) may be absent and internal disorders take their place. That possible inversion of symptoms is so little known that Dr. Hans Lisser of San Francisco made a stir by showing that a person's lazy insides may be prodded by thyroid treatment. Dr. Lisser's most remarkable patient suffered from ascites (abdominal dropsy); flaccid heart, intestines and bladder...