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...Boston, the Mayos built a large portion of their clinic activities on goiter operations. Dr. Henry Stanley Flummer of the Mayo staff was the outgoing president of the American Association for the Study of Goiter last week. Dr. "Charlie" Mayo was on the program for a dissertation on thyroid deficiency, a commonly unrecognized disorder. Their interest in goiter has forced the Mayos to investigate the real causes for the falling off of their goiter business. They had a goiter survey made of Minnesota. There were actually fewer goiters in that goitrous State than any prior survey had shown...
Goiter is fundamentally a thyroid enlargement. To the thyroid function cheery Dr. Crile has tried to apply his electronic theory of life (TIME, Dec. 5. et ante), a theory to which his colleagues listen with aseptic indulgence. Said Dr. Crile in Memphis: "What we eat is radiation. Our food is so much quanta of energy, not in that inert word calories, but quanta. The sun shines upon our food products, and the sun shines secondarily within us. in the body's protoplasm. Energy contained in food is put there by the sun's radiation on the atoms...
...diet of albumins and thyroid extract; no proteins, salt, sugar, cereals, cream, potatoes or meat. His doctor: Ignactius Millian, one-time cancer doctor at Manhattan's Central & Neurological Hospital on Welfare Island...
Medicine has neglected the study of dwarfism. Stature of four feet has become conventional demarkation between normal and little people. Midgets are well-proportioned dwarfs. True dwarfs have big heads, shoulders, chests and buttocks, short extremities. Causes of dwarfism include heredity, disease of the thyroid, pituitary or kidneys, disturbances in the changing of cartilage into bone, or essential infantilism. If Europe produces more dwarfs (and midgets) than the U. S., the explanation may be with Europe's greater population (550,000,000 to 122,775,000 which statistically allows for more freak births. Dysfunction of glands similarly causes gigantism...
...Thyroids & Insanity. One of five persons confined to U. S. hospitals is there for dementia praecox. Some cases might be due, surmised Professor Roy Graham Hoskins of Harvard, to thyroid irregularities. He went to the State Hospital at Worcester, Mass, and with the help of F. H. Sleeper selected 18 dementia praecox patients who probably had poor thyroids. They fed these patients thyroid extract, were not surprised to find 14, or 88%, decidedly improved, five of them sufficiently so to be released and trusted in the general community...