Word: thyroidal
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...appendectomy uneventfully. But her quick excitability and easy fatigue did not disappear. The slightest exertion set her atremble. These and other peculiarities led Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's personal physician, Dr. Knuthsen and Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill, an Australian who achieved eminence as a London thyroid surgeon, to conclude that Princess Mary suffered with exophthalmic goitre...
Last week, after a cheery visit from the King and Queen, Princess Mary went to a private sanatorium to have her goitre out. A curving incision was made into the front of her neck. By lifting the flap of skin, the surgeon exposed the thyroid gland lying around the windpipe, excised almost all of it. He took special pains not to damage Mary's laryngeal nerves, which might cause her to choke to death, nor her parathyroid glands, which might throw her into spasms. Final step in the thyroidectomy was to bring the edges of the divided skin...
...physiological mechanism which produces exophthalmic goitre remains a medical puzzle. In typical cases the thyroid is enlarged and the eyeballs protrude from their sockets. But neither pop eyes nor big neck are essential symptoms of exophthalmic goitre. A rapid pulse, moist skin and loss of weight, despite a good appetite, suggest the disease. The patient is restless and irritable, laughs and cries easily, becomes angry and excited at the least provocation, is comparatively insensitive to cold. An unfailing test for exophthalmic goitre is the basal metabolism rate, measured by a simple breathing machine. If after a long rest...
Rest palliates the stormy symptoms of exophthalmic goitre. The only cure is subtotal excision of the troublesome thyroid. The patient immediately calms down. After a time the pop eyes usually recede...
...Hayes's latest nostrum is Marmola, a tablet containing thyroid substance, which he markets over drugstore patent medicine counters as a cure for obesity. Like all thyroid preparations, Marmola may cause a user to drop dead, or cripple control his heart, unless a physician stands by to control the dosage and reduction in weight. Vainly various agencies have tried to stop the sale of Marmola. Last week the Federal Communications Commission tried its hand by threatening to take licenses away from 21 radio stations from Rochester to San Francisco, Los Angeles to Miami, if they did not cease broadcasting...