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Equally surprising was the finding that the body's output and metabolism of these substances depend on how well the thyroid gland is functioning. This close relationship between two supposedly distinct systems had not been suspected. A significant item: the body's output of androsterone declines with advancing years. This may explain why some diseases increase in old age, and suggests a clue to ways of slowing them down...
...findings: he had a tumor on his pituitary gland; evidently it had boosted the gland's output of growth hormone to a fantastic level, while suppressing its output of three other vital master hormones which govern the adrenal glands, the thyroid and the sex glands...
Perhaps reading too far, Torrilhon detects myxedema (underactive thyroid) in the swollen eyelids, sparse lashes, dry hair and "shivering, apathetic aspect" of the bride in the renowned canvas, The Peasant Wedding. (Critic Gilbert Highet saw the bride as "a healthy, blowsy heifer," whose smirk and downcast eyes hide unseemly thoughts: "I'm glad I'm getting married. I don't much like my husband, but he is rich.") In the five sightless beggars stumbling into a ditch in the famous Parable of the Blind, Torrilhon sees a whole ophthalmological catalogue. From left to right, he diagnoses pronounced...
Died. Dr. André Crotti, 84, Swiss-educated, internationally famed goiter specialist and author (Thyroid and Thy-mus); in Columbus, Ohio, on the day that his French Artist-Brother Jean Crotti, 79, a forerunner of the surrealist movement and first developer of the now popular gemmaux technique (TIME, March 25), died in Paris...
Psychiatrists who have noted that thyroid gland disorders may go hand in hand with mental illness have been baffled in their efforts to chart precisely which disorders produced what effects. A Manhattan group last week made a promising progress report to the American Psychiatric Association concerning triiodothyronine (known as "T3" among hormone specialists), by far the most potent of all thyroid hormones and their derivatives...