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Since the thyroid is the key organ in metabolism, and since radioactive iodine-131 makes a beeline for the thyroid, a simple check with a scintillation counter held against the throat can show when it is overactive: an overactive thyroid removes more iodine-131 from the blood than a normal one, and this shows in a higher reading on the dial of the counter. Moreover, where the atomic cocktail test was once thought to require a second visit to the laboratory for a reading 24 hours afterward, researchers at the Navy's Radioisotope Laboratory in Bethesda, Md. now find...
Three Hormones. Senora R. withstood the operation amazingly well. Within a week the pain of her cancer had gone and she needed no more morphine. Dr. Schutte now supplies only three hormones as substitutes for those produced or governed by the pituitary: cortisone, desoxycorti-costerone and thyroid. Today, 95% of the outward signs of her cancer have disappeared...
Broadly speaking, stress diseases are caused when the "combat mechanism" of the body goes into action under some shock, the thyroid demanding a "purposeless increase" in metabolic output, the pituitary sending ACTH flooding to the adrenals, and the blood pressure, blood salt and blood sugar increasing. Once stimulated by shock, the mechanism keeps on going. The human system is exhilarated, but badly unbalanced. Exhaustion usually follows, often with a dangerous lowering of the body's normal resistance to infection...
...Sterling waited a long time to find a suitable donor for the glands. Last fall, a baby was born so malformed that he could not long survive. His parents agreed that if he could not be saved, his thyroid gland should not be wasted. In his fourth week, the baby died. Within minutes, his thyroid and parathyroids were removed, with about an inch of each of the four main blood vessels attached. The operating room was got ready for Irma Miller, and, as soon as she arrived for an injection, she was whisked to the table. The surgeons decided...
...days later, and again after four months, tests with a tiny dose of radioactive iodine and a Geiger counter showed that the oddly placed thyroid was functioning. Irma Miller has needed no more thyroid extract or calcium injections. She is going to be married, and Dr. Sterling is going to give the bride away...