Word: thyroid
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Berkeley, Calif., Dr. Olga Bridgman announced that she had discovered a means of transforming idiots into high grade morons. No details were given, aside from the fact that the treatment is applied to the thyroid glands and is declared effective only in cases of idiocy resulting from irregular secretions from the ductless glands...
...Crile is known the world over not only as a super-surgeon, but as an incisive and original thinker in biology and social psychology. He is a foremost specialist in surgery of the thyroid gland. He has devised methods of avoiding surgical shock by a combination of local and gen- eral anaesthetics (nitrous oxide and novocaine) which he calls " anoci-association." He studied in Ohio, Vienna, London, Paris, and has won more medical prizes than he can stagger under. During the War he was a Colonel in charge of a base hospital. In peace time he is a professor...
...Starr, Toronto, described the possibilities of thyroid therapy. Cretins (goiterous dwarf defectives) can be increased in stature six inches in a year by treatment with goat thyroid extract. A race of tall men may be bred. 2) Ethylene, the new anaesthetic (TIME, March 17) has been used in 907 cases in Chicago clinics, only one resulting fatally. 3) Sir William I. de Courcy Wheeler, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, was a special guest. 4) Dr. "Will" Mayo (TIME, May 19) was a prominent figure, as usual. He made an address summarizing surgical progress. 5) Dr. Albert...
...Emil Theodor Kocher (1841-1917), Swiss, director of surgical clinic, University of Berne, expert in surgery of thyroid and other ductless glands and of exophthalmic goiter...
...Banting, Best, Scott have found insulin in other tissues than the pancreas, e. g., the liver, spleen, thymus, thyroid and submaxillary glands and even muscle tissue. In fact, some of these produced a greater quantity than the pancreas. When tested on rabbits and dogs, it has had the same results in lowering blood sugar...