Word: thyroids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cancer Society. Two days before the big banquet at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria he had taken a dose of radioactive iodine; now handsome, scholarly Dr. Robley D. Evans, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, would demonstrate how the substance, a product of atomic research, could combat cancer of the thyroid...
Among other things, a speeding thyroid increases nervous tension. The Jerusalem rats may therefore help to explain why New Yorkers are fratchy in July and why a man who commits murder in Naples when the sirocco is blowing can hope for lenient treatment in court...
...neat little experiment reported in the Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, some Jerusalem scientists discovered that when rats are moved from a hot, dry atmosphere to a hot, humid one, their thyroid glands speed...
...doctors, with their characteristic well-why-not attitude toward new ideas, have lately been trying out a queer one. The idea: to cure people with opposite ailments by having them exchange some blood. They have experimented with the following "antagonistic" conditions: high and low blood pressure, overactive and underactive thyroid conditions, leukemia (overproduction of white blood cells) and shortage of white cells, pernicious anemia and overproduction of red cells, lack of menstruation and menstrual hemorrhage...
...reported in the American Review of Soviet Medicine last week, the process thus far seems to work in the thyroid and menstrual conditions. But U.S. doctors, who have tried similar exchanges on animals (TIME, Sept. 26, 1938), do not think much of this Russian idea. To be effective, virtually all the blood of the patients involved would have to be exchanged; and even so, the benefit would be temporary at best...