Word: thyroids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Harvard Odontological Society will be held Friday, April 6, at the Harvard Dental School. The meeting will begin at 12.30 o'clock and will continue throughout the evening. Dr. Elliot C. Cutler, Professor of Surgery in the Medical School, will speak during the evening session on "The Thyroid Gland and its Relation to Angina Pectoris." During the remainder of the meeting papers of scientific nature will be read and demonstrations will be performed...
...serum, placed in proper containers under proper conditions, becomes a culture medium in which the gland tissue to be grafted is placed. The gland tissue gradually becomes accustomed to the serum, and thus to the biological character of its owner-to-be. When Dr. Stone finally fits a thyroid or parathyroid graft into a new body, the graft suffers no shock, takes firm and lasting root, grows and supplies essential hormones. In the Stone technique whole glands are not necessary for grafting. A few strong cells suffice, and their surrender causes the donor no discomfort...