Word: thyroidal
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...they have become convinced that their best chance is with the swift-growing tissues from an embryo or a very young baby. Last week Surgeon Julian A. Sterling of Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center reported that he had put this theory into practice and transplanted an entire thyroid gland, with its four tiny parathyroids attached, from an infant to an adult, and that the graft had worked well for five months. It was, he believed, the first case of its kind...
Irma Marie Miller, 29, a waitress, had spent the last ten years in the shadow of the hospital. Her thyroid and parathyroids had been removed for fear of a fatal dis ease. She needed daily doses of thyroid extract. And to make up for the loss of the parathyroids, which control the body's use of calcium, she had to visit the hospital four times a day. on the average, for injections of calcium to save her from muscular spasms which might have choked her to death...
William O'Dwyer, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and now a Mexico City émigré, was in a Beverly Hills clinic with "an old thyroid condition that needs checking every so often...
Like a chameleon on a piece of Scotch plaid, the patient has a complex pattern of response. Several of the endocrine (ductless) glands go to work. The adrenals pump out both adrenalin and cortisone-like hormones. Both lobes of the pituitary step up their activity. So, probably, does the thyroid. Triggered by these hormonal reactions, about which much is yet to be learned, the body's chemistry changes in a dozen ways...
Some extremely dangerous drugs have been promoted for reducing, said Dr. Stormont. Thyroid extract, still popular with some physicians, should not be; it can do grave harm, and there is no reason for giving it, since an underactive thyroid is very rarely the cause of obesity. Also sharply condemned: other hormones, such as pituitary extract (they have nothing to do with overweight), laxatives and dinitrophenol (it raises the temperature so that "the obese are literally frying in their own fat," and it causes cataracts...