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About half of barren marriages can now be made fertile, compared with one-fifth 20 years ago. Strangely low metabolism often goes with sterility, and thyroid extract sometimes results in babies...
...Astwood has developed a new medical treatment for patients with enlarged goiters caused by over-active thyroid glands. In nine cases treated, all signs of the disease disappeared after a daily dose of the thiouracil medicine for six months...
There was a time when a patient whose popeyes (exophthalmia) were getting worse (e.g., certain thyroid cases) could get no help from surgery, might go blind or even die. Then in 1931, Dr. H. C. Naffziger began making temporary windows through foreheads and removing some of the bony framework around the back of eye sockets. This made room within the head for swollen eye muscles, let eyes sink into place. He got good results in over three-quarters of his cases...
...London Sir George Gibson Mitcheson, M.P. told the Daily Mail that he thought the charity-run Hosa Laboratories which he founded had discovered a good treatment for cancer. Treatment consists of daily subcutaneous injections of an extract of parathyroid glands (small glands close to the thyroid). Name of the extract...
...Thiouracil is a white powder with a bitter taste which two groups of Boston doctors are using successfully to relieve the fast heart rate, shortness of breath, nervousness and shakiness of patients with overactive thyroid glands. The doctors think the drug acts by preventing the gland from making too much hormone...