Word: thyroids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientists study the question, the more fundamental differences they find between men & women. Girl babies are generally born five to nine days sooner than boys; they teethe and talk earlier; their bones harden sooner; they have fewer red corpuscles and a faster pulse; they are more emotional (more active thyroid glands); they mature more rapidly. A girl sleeps more than a boy, needs less food, has a lower metabolism rate, is warmer in winter (because of better insulation) and cooler in summer...
...only one intercourse in 202 resulted in pregnancy. Infertility is by no means an exclusive matter of stopped-up tubes, venereal disease, or poor sexual development. Some other causes: diet low in vitamins or protein, poor absorption of food, too much alcohol, too little sleep, "nervousness," infections, recent fever, thyroid and pituitary disorders, wrong kinds of vaginal douches...
About half of barren marriages can now be made fertile, compared with one-fifth 20 years ago. Strangely low metabolism often goes with sterility, and thyroid extract sometimes results in babies...
...Astwood has developed a new medical treatment for patients with enlarged goiters caused by over-active thyroid glands. In nine cases treated, all signs of the disease disappeared after a daily dose of the thiouracil medicine for six months...
There was a time when a patient whose popeyes (exophthalmia) were getting worse (e.g., certain thyroid cases) could get no help from surgery, might go blind or even die. Then in 1931, Dr. H. C. Naffziger began making temporary windows through foreheads and removing some of the bony framework around the back of eye sockets. This made room within the head for swollen eye muscles, let eyes sink into place. He got good results in over three-quarters of his cases...