Word: thyroidal
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...Persons from inland Europe are brachycephalic or short-headed, while their children reared in New York and Boston become much more long-headed or dolichocephalic. This reaction may be due to the more favorable physiological action of the thyroid gland in a maritime environment, since the inland Continental regions are so frequently low in surface iodine and thyroid disturbances are prevalent...
...same thing as Vitamin C. To further these studies, Dr, Szent-Györgyi needed large quantities of ascorbic acid, and his pursuit of it took him to a half-dozen European universities and the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn, where Dr. Edward Calvin Kendall, isolator of thyroid hormone and analyzer of adrenal cortex hormone, provided him with a big stock of adrenals fresh from South St. Paul stockyards. He still was not able to get enough to permit all the experiments he wanted to do on the acid's medical effects, and in despair Dr. Szent...
...endocrine secretions to the reproductive functions is beginning to be understood by biochemists and physiologists. It is known that a very delicate acid-base equilibrium is essential for conception. This equilibrium is very easily upset, and nothing seems to affect it more quickly and decisively than psychological disturbances. . . . The thyroid gland is especially prompt in its reaction to psychological stimuli. Its secretions, containing thyroxin, are produced during normal sexual intercourse in such abundance as almost to constitute an eruption. This energetic secretion of thyroxin would appear to be an essential preliminary to conception. Inhibiting the function of the thyroid...
...change in a patient's psychic state should be accepted as an indication of the onset of a possibly serious thyroid state. Nothing will more certainly foretell such a state than the appearance of diarrhea or vomiting as the result of an increase in the hyperthyroidism. One must realize that with the appearance of these two symptoms, the most unfavorable conditions possible for this disease come into play. The combustion process associated with hyperthyroidism continues, but the ability to provide combustible fuel for this increased metabolism is lost, with the result that the patient suffers not only from...
Soon as Dr. Lahey recognizes the approach of thyroid crisis in a patient he takes "combative measures not only toward control of hyperthyroidism by iodine, rest and sedatives, but also toward protection of the liver by the continuous intravenous injection of fluids and large amounts of glucose. The result is that our clinical experience has been much more gratifying. It has even been possible in many cases not only to extricate the patients from a thyroid crisis, but to operate upon them after a period of preparation of two to three weeks with a very reasonable mortality rate...