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...Medical Sciences, said they started their patients on a reducing diet of 900 to 1,300 calories, administered the drug only when hunger got the better of the patients. Backsliders then got about 5 mg. of dextroamphetamine an hour before each meal. (When necessary patients also got thyroid extract or a diuretic to help them get rid of liquids...
There are no "heart lines," "head lines" or "life lines" in her book. The form of the hand is her best clue to heredity, temperament, mentality and talents. The hands of children usually resemble those of one parent, sometimes a child will inherit one hand from each. An underdeveloped thyroid gland causes small, fat, broad hands, white and flabby, and a personality that is kindhearted, open-minded but unstable and lacking in concentration. The overdeveloped thyroid gives a long, bony hand, with thin bony fingers and an active, vivacious personality...
...long hand with long, bony fingers, firm muscles and flat palm, long nails with well developed moons, and many deep, clear-cut palm lines belongs to tall, slender people, nervous and excitable, vivacious, popular, successful, in danger of becoming egotistical. They will tend toward disease of the thyroid, tuberculosis or nervous disorders. Among them are many tennis champions, polo players, dancers and engineers...
Some patients begin well, then reach a "plateau," stop losing. Only then, as a rule, does Dr. Cutting resort to thyroid. Generally he avoids it because, except in doses large enough to be dangerous (e.g., to the heart), thyroid is less effective than diet...
...search for the secret of living energy. Many of the animals he collected himself on hunting trips, from Hudson Bay (where he bagged a white whale) to Africa (where, when he was 72, he bagged a seven-ton elephant). Each animal was promptly dissected, its "energy-controlling organs"-heart, thyroid, brain, adrenals-measured and' examined on the spot...