Word: thyroidal
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...week. Small, frail, sombre, he rose from his seat to accept the medal, big as his palm, and in return to tell the College a simple chain of endocrine events which may lead to a simple cure for the ugly form of goitre called Graves's Disease. The thyroid may not be appreciably enlarged in a case of Graves's Disease. But in all cases the eyes bulge. In extreme cases the eyes may pop out of their sockets...
Professor Loeb found that the cause of this bulging was not in the individual's thyroid itself, although the thyroid was overworking as hard as any goitrous thyroid. By systematically shuffling the hormones of many creatures, he found that the seat of Graves's Disease is in the pituitary gland, a chestnut-sized nugget lying midway between the temples. Through its many hormones the pituitary in one way or another manages the activities of practically all the other ductless glands. One of the pituitary's hormones, Professor Loeb found, specifically excites the thyroid and causes the eyes...
...Williams Keen, practices neuropsychiatry in Washington. He dissected 1,400 lunatics after their deaths to find out what effects, if any, their endocrine glands may have had upon their distorted personalities. He also studied the personalities of several hundred normal characters who suffered from hormonal disturbances of the pituitary, thyroid, adrenals, sex glands, etc. After all that work Dr. Freeman concluded that hormones have a preponderant role in the total energy output of an individual as well as in the harmonious functioning of his nervous system. He found little evidence that a person's endocrine glands determine the type...
Internal Myxedema. Among the common signs of a thyroid gland functioning under par are: cold, dry, rough and puffy skin; coarse, dry hair which falls out; apathetic emotions; sluggish mind. But those external signs of myxedema (atrophy of the thyroid) may be absent and internal disorders take their place. That possible inversion of symptoms is so little known that Dr. Hans Lisser of San Francisco made a stir by showing that a person's lazy insides may be prodded by thyroid treatment. Dr. Lisser's most remarkable patient suffered from ascites (abdominal dropsy); flaccid heart, intestines and bladder...
...scoffed at total excision of the thyroid. The theory is that the thyroid drives the heart more than the heart can stand and that without the thyroid's slave-driving the heart can take its own time and method of pumping blood through the coronary arteries. Thyroidectomy does relieve drive on the heart and does prevent angina. But it does not cure the source of trouble and, except for lifelong dosing with the thyroid hormone, makes an idiot of the coronary patient...