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...woman) increased a person's metabolism by 30%, made him half again as lively as before getting the dose. This sluggard's prodding has been kept up for three months with no ascertainable discomfort or injury to the people experimented on. An equivalent dosage of thyroid gland, another dissipator of indolence, would have made the experimentees irritable. Dinitrophenol caused no nervousness, anxiety, trembling, hunger or palpitation. It raised neither temperature, respiration nor pulse...
...know, each according to his light. As to the writer of the letter, John Limond Hart, it is merely that I challenge his judgment, and, then, in sorrow. I do not contest his qualifications to present any of the refinements, the mysteries of life-art, archaeology, technocracy, zoology, psychology, thyroid condition, longevity-because he has reached that age when, to the normal American male youth, adolescence goes definitely over the top with a bang, when all knowledge either has been acquired or completely surrounded. He is 12. CHARLES C. HART Teheran, Persia
Artist Diego Rivera, lost 125 Ib. (from 310 Ib.) in eight months by substituting thyroid extract for exercise. He also avoided fat-building foods...
...thyroid route to slimness was all right for Diego Rivera who had a doctor watching him like a mother hen. But it is a risky business, just as unsupervised dieting is risky. Obesity is not a simple condition always due to gluttony or laziness. Endocrine glands may be out of order. A poor thyroid may not keep metabolism spurred. Poor sexual apparatus causes a peculiar pudginess and a warped pituitary gland an odd flabbiness. Dieting and/or exercise unaided by doctoring cannot put those glands back in kilter...
...thyroid received little attention at last fortnight's meetings, apparently because its physiology is broadly understood and because the number of goitre cases in the country is shrinking (TIME. May 29). Nor did the sex glands per se come up for much discussion. The pituitary predominated over...