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Salter, in association with Thomas S. Sappington '37, and Miss Hildegarde Wilson, has found, by experimentation on mice, that insulin, thyroid extract, and anterior pituitary gland hormones contain protein substances. The stomach contains enzymes which break up and digest proteins; thus insulin or any other protein type of hormone, if swallowed as food or drink, is treated as protein material...
...Shots of thyroid or pituitary hormones enable a dwarf to fit into a man-sized suit of clothes, a young boy to sing basso profundo. Spectacular as the results of hormone treatment may be, doctors are still in the dark about the exact size of the injection in many unusual cases, have dared to administer only conservative amounts of hormone over long periods of time. Last year Physiologists R. Deanesly and Alan Sterling Parkes of the National Institute for Medical Research at London grew tired of performing innumerable injections in their laboratory, decided that they needed a "laborsaving device." They...
Only a heroic dose will result in death, and when death does occur it is usually due to overstimulation of the thyroid...
...airway open by using the horseshoe-shaped hyoid bone at the root of the tongue as a wedge in the larynx. His technique consists of cutting loose the upper left end of the bone, swinging it down into the desired position in the larynx, and planting it in the thyroid cartilage, firmest section of laryngeal framework. The soft tissues adhering to the hyoid bone are not scraped off, since they provide a good blood supply. As a living graft, with one end assured of normal circulation, the hyoid bone is far superior to any foreign graft clipped from...
...stopped lengthening her dresses. At 14, Eula was still the same size: height not quite four feet, weight 52 pounds. Then the Associated Catholic Charities sent the shy little dwarf to New Orleans Charity Hospital, where for two years she took large dally doses of the growth-stimulating hormones, thyroid and pituitary extract. Quick as a cornstalk Eula shot up. Last week she reached 59 inches, 92 pounds. Doctors thought they could boost her up another few inches but healthy Eula was content. Said she proudly, if incorrectly: "I'm taller than Helen Hayes." (Miss Hayes's height...