Word: thyroids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...endocrine secretions to the reproductive functions is beginning to be understood by biochemists and physiologists. It is known that a very delicate acid-base equilibrium is essential for conception. This equilibrium is very easily upset, and nothing seems to affect it more quickly and decisively than psychological disturbances. . . . The thyroid gland is especially prompt in its reaction to psychological stimuli. Its secretions, containing thyroxin, are produced during normal sexual intercourse in such abundance as almost to constitute an eruption. This energetic secretion of thyroxin would appear to be an essential preliminary to conception. Inhibiting the function of the thyroid...
...goitre produces more thyroid hormone than the body requires, observed Dr. Lahey, causes more energy to be dissipated than the body can afford to expend. Immediate source for this energy is sugar in the blood. The blood gets its supply from sugar stored in the liver. When the liver's store runs out, a thyroid crisis is apt to develop. Delirium, vomiting, diarrhea, temperatures of 105 degrees to 106 degrees ensue. Infections such as tonsillitis or abscessed teeth accentuate this condition. Explained Dr. Lahey...
...change in a patient's psychic state should be accepted as an indication of the onset of a possibly serious thyroid state. Nothing will more certainly foretell such a state than the appearance of diarrhea or vomiting as the result of an increase in the hyperthyroidism. One must realize that with the appearance of these two symptoms, the most unfavorable conditions possible for this disease come into play. The combustion process associated with hyperthyroidism continues, but the ability to provide combustible fuel for this increased metabolism is lost, with the result that the patient suffers not only from...
Soon as Dr. Lahey recognizes the approach of thyroid crisis in a patient he takes "combative measures not only toward control of hyperthyroidism by iodine, rest and sedatives, but also toward protection of the liver by the continuous intravenous injection of fluids and large amounts of glucose. The result is that our clinical experience has been much more gratifying. It has even been possible in many cases not only to extricate the patients from a thyroid crisis, but to operate upon them after a period of preparation of two to three weeks with a very reasonable mortality rate...
They extracted juices from the muscles, heart, lungs, brain, kidneys, spleen, liver, pancreas, stomach, thyroid, testes, pituitary, thymus, and adrenals of dogs, cats, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, oxen, men & women. Unexpectedly, extract of the cortices of adrenal glands stimulated the bitterling precisely the way ovarian hormones did. None of the other tissue juices caused that effect...