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...Aurore Dupin) not only indulged a taste for tobacco, but for men as well, including Composer Frédéric Chopin, Poet Alfred de Mussel and Novelist Prosper Merimee. "I don't have the incredible energy she had," said Harris, 48, suggesting that "a thyroid condition" might have accounted for Sand's extraordinary vigor. "Her eyes were rather poppy. She lived to the hilt...
...most active hospital using acupuncture," the technique was employed in 845 cases in 1970 and in only 324 in 1973-a mere 6% of all the year's operations. About half of 1973's operations using acupuncture were relatively minor, involving the removal of small thyroid nodules. Even for the least radical operations, most of the patients had their acupuncture reinforced by sedation with barbiturates, followed by a morphine-type analgesic and in some cases by injections of a local anesthetic...
...shrink enlarged thymus glands or adenoids and destroy infected tonsils. They used the technique on thousands of small children. But in the early 1950s, after doctors began finding a high correlation between the X-ray treatment and the later development of growths (both benign and malignant) on thyroid glands, they hastily abandoned the procedure. In 1958, Dr. C. Lenore Simpson of the Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo confirmed their growing fears by reporting that children who had received X-ray treatments were far more likely to develop thyroid cancer and leukemia than those...
...read a newspaper article about the efforts by doctors to locate and examine them. When she visited her parents in Wisconsin a few weeks later, she learned that she, too, had had the X-ray treatments. After seeing her family physician, who assured her that he could detect no thyroid abnormality, she agreed to become part of a research program launched by the Medical College of Wisconsin at Milwaukee County General Hospital...
...year-old mother has already died of a thyroid cancer that doctors believe was caused by X-ray treatments administered when she was an infant. But for most, the damage has not been irreparable. Doctors have found thyroid abnormalities in 195 of the first thousand patients examined under the Wisconsin program, but a good many of these growths proved to be benign and were treated successfully. A New York State program that has traced patients since 1955 found only 19 cases of cancer when it studied 3,000 patients in 1963, well above what would normally be expected but considerably...