Word: thyroids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diet of albumins and thyroid extract; no proteins, salt, sugar, cereals, cream, potatoes or meat. His doctor: Ignactius Millian, one-time cancer doctor at Manhattan's Central & Neurological Hospital on Welfare Island...
Medicine has neglected the study of dwarfism. Stature of four feet has become conventional demarkation between normal and little people. Midgets are well-proportioned dwarfs. True dwarfs have big heads, shoulders, chests and buttocks, short extremities. Causes of dwarfism include heredity, disease of the thyroid, pituitary or kidneys, disturbances in the changing of cartilage into bone, or essential infantilism. If Europe produces more dwarfs (and midgets) than the U. S., the explanation may be with Europe's greater population (550,000,000 to 122,775,000 which statistically allows for more freak births. Dysfunction of glands similarly causes gigantism...
...Thyroids & Insanity. One of five persons confined to U. S. hospitals is there for dementia praecox. Some cases might be due, surmised Professor Roy Graham Hoskins of Harvard, to thyroid irregularities. He went to the State Hospital at Worcester, Mass, and with the help of F. H. Sleeper selected 18 dementia praecox patients who probably had poor thyroids. They fed these patients thyroid extract, were not surprised to find 14, or 88%, decidedly improved, five of them sufficiently so to be released and trusted in the general community...
...established theory is that goiter is due to lack of iodine in food & drink. Iodine stimulates the thyroid gland. In goiter the thyroid swells to compensate for its iodine insufficiency...
...Alexander Hellwig, 42, of St. Francis Hospital, Wichita, Kan. doubted that theory. He had noted as had others that a diet low in iodine, high in calcium produced the most pronounced goiters. He believed there must be a positive cause for goitrous enlargement of the thyroid, probably calcium...