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...Caesarean sections were done three times during my 18 months in the service with 100% fatality. . . . Thyroid operations were preceded by doses of opium or digitalis or both. In many cases a resection [removal] of the entire gland was done. I, personally, plead guilty. . . . The operation was a very easy one-a complete resection of both lobes and isthmus, with the usual speedy outcome-death within 24 hours...
...days' observation usually uncovers high blood pressure induced by benzedrine sulfate, low blood pressure induced by thyroid extract and other drug-induced disorders. In 1918 an A.E.F. hospital had an entire ward full of sufferers from a mysterious, persistent diarrhea. An observer camouflaged as another patient discovered that all the diarrhetics were bribing a night orderly to steal purgatives for them...
Next to closed tubes, the most common cause of infertility is infection of the cervix. This can usually be cleared up by good medical care. Sometimes doses of thyroid extract are needed to stimulate the ovaries. Treatment with ovarian hormones (estrogen and progestin), says the doctor, plays "no significant part in the treatment of sterility." Of course, if both ovaries have been mutilated or removed, a woman is permanently barren...
This reproductive debility may be over come by a variety of treatments, including thyroid pills, and especially a quiet, moderate life with plenty of exercise and nutritious food. (Farmers, says Dr. Hamblen, seldom have to worry.) Temporary sterility may be caused by fever, or a heavy dose of sulfanilamide. Serious physical hurts, such as damaged testes, are usually irreparable. Sometimes sperm ducts, like fallopian tubes, become obstructed, can occasionally be opened by a catheter...
Trypanosomiasis, or Chagas' disease, caused by a parasite spread by ticks, bed bugs, pig flies. Commonest in Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, the trypanosomes invade the lymph nodes, thyroid, heart muscles, bone marrow, etc., cause fever, heart disease, sometimes insanity. There is no effective cure...