Word: thyroids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a new experiment in treatment, the result of 20 years' work, was announced by four Mayo Clinic researchers: Dr. Philip S. Hench, an authority on arthritis, Dr. Edward C. Kendall, who isolated the thyroid hormone (TIME, Nov. 8, 1937), and Drs. Charles H. Slocumb and Howard F. Polley...
Died. Henry Noble Hall, 76, British-born veteran reporter, lecturer and author; after a stroke; in Manhattan. In 1946, suffering from a thyroid cancer, Hall offered himself as a human guinea pig. From glasses handed him in tongs at arm's length, he drank "Hiroshima Cocktails" (radioactive iodine from the Oak Ridge atom pile) which slowed the cancer. Knowing that the cure was incomplete, he had time to write detailed notes for the doctors...
...held perfectly steady for X-ray purposes; there is little tissue between the bones and the camera, hence details photograph more sharply than with deep organic photography. Among the diseases that can sometimes be spotted by radiological palm reading: too much or little activity of the thyroid; nutritional disorders like scurvy and rickets; gout; cancer of the chest (which, like some other chest diseases, shows up as new bone laid down around normal bone); arthritis...
Social climbing is something the doctors specifically warn against: "We have been able to show that among patients with chronic disease in general, with duodenal ulcers and with thyroid disorders there is an unusual number of social climbers and strainers, that is, persons who want to improve their social status...
Thiouracil, used for disturbances of the thyroid gland, may make the legs swell, damage the white blood cells, cause death...