Word: thyroidal
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...went to, including a Los Angeles business college in which she studied stenography and shorthand so as to have a foundation for other professions in case she was a failure in the film business. She studied cutting and carried script for her father. Lately she has been taking thyroid treatments and has lost 25 lb. Paramount was pleased but Mae West told her to gain weight for Belle of the Nineties. She likes to play heavies. She says that anyone can be an ingenue but to be a menace takes action. She does a lot of swimming at the Beach...
Just at this ebb period in industry, the subject of poverty is especially pertinent, but a man who expects to loll leisurely in the library glancing at pictures of idiots, imbeciles, morons and thyroid sufferers will get a jolt in a very short time. Even, poverty can be prosaic, and the administration of a wel- fare society when presented with a sober lack of expression and in intricately balanced sentences does not encourage strict attention
...market, with widely varying formulas, but the facts about them are simple. Prime fact is that all are either harmful, worthless or both. Most are simply laxatives, for it is possible to reduce weight by hurrying food through the system before it can be properly digested. Some compounds contain thyroid extract which, by speeding metabolism, does reduce weight but with much possible harm...
Marmola: "A quack obesity cure of the thyroid type...
...Manhattan, day Banker Kahn died, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology heard Boston's Drs. Herrmann Ludwig Blumgart and David Daniel Berlin tell how they had effected ''striking relief" from angina. A thyroid gland secretion regulates the rate at which the body converts food and oxygen into energy (metabolism). Drs. Blumgart and Berlin cut the thyroid gland from 20 angina patients, thus slowing down the rate of metabolism. Functioning normally at a lower level, the heart was not balked when called on for extra work. Not one of the 20 patients has since been wracked...