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...Brusch, a general practitioner who operates a medical center near City Hall, also speaks for the anti-fluoridationists, but is not affiliated with any organization. Claiming that fluoride ("a poison more deadly than arsenic") can have deleterious effects on the nervous system, the circulatory system, the bones, the thyroid gland, the liver, the kidneys, and the heart, Brusch bases much of his argument on the difficulty of regulating one's daily intake of the chemical...
...Shumway's dogs. Other surgeons have long since demonstrated how many more supposedly vital parts the body can do without. Thanks largely to medicinal hormones that replace its own supply, the body can function adequately without: the master pituitary gland in the brain, both adrenals, the thyroid, the thymus, spleen, pancreas, gall bladder, one hemisphere of the brain, the gullet, much of the stomach, anywhere from a few inches to several feet of small bowel, the colon, rectum, one lung, one kidney, one testicle, one ovary, one breast, the prostate gland...
...onetime child star who grew up and out of fame: Albert Salmi, 35, blond screen and TV actor; on grounds of mental cruelty (she testified that their continuing argument over whether to live in Hollywood or New York caused her to twist her neck violently and develop a thyroid condition); after nearly seven years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...suppress these excessive reactions, Dr. Nakayama wondered, why not cut out one or both carotid bodies? After tests on animals, Dr. Nakayama tried taking carotid bodies from his patients. They needed only a local anesthetic, though to get at the glomus, he had to sever one of the thyroid arteries. He cut the carotid body's own little artery, snipped the stalk by which it is attached (actually a bunch of nerves), and removed it. In seven years of wholesale surgery, Dr. Nakayama operated on almost 4,000 asthmatics, now reports that 81% had good results for at least...
...from side effects is shown in the council's listing of 48 other drugs that have, in at least a few patients, caused blood-cell damage. They include many of the most widely used sulfas and invaluable drugs universally prescribed for diabetes, arthritis, heart failure, epileptic seizures, tuberculosis, thyroid disease and emotional disorders. Even such old reliables as quinine and the painkillers phenacetin and aminopyrine are on the list...