Word: thyroids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London Sir George Gibson Mitcheson, M.P. told the Daily Mail that he thought the charity-run Hosa Laboratories which he founded had discovered a good treatment for cancer. Treatment consists of daily subcutaneous injections of an extract of parathyroid glands (small glands close to the thyroid). Name of the extract...
...Thiouracil is a white powder with a bitter taste which two groups of Boston doctors are using successfully to relieve the fast heart rate, shortness of breath, nervousness and shakiness of patients with overactive thyroid glands. The doctors think the drug acts by preventing the gland from making too much hormone...
...Medical Sciences, said they started their patients on a reducing diet of 900 to 1,300 calories, administered the drug only when hunger got the better of the patients. Backsliders then got about 5 mg. of dextroamphetamine an hour before each meal. (When necessary patients also got thyroid extract or a diuretic to help them get rid of liquids...
There are no "heart lines," "head lines" or "life lines" in her book. The form of the hand is her best clue to heredity, temperament, mentality and talents. The hands of children usually resemble those of one parent, sometimes a child will inherit one hand from each. An underdeveloped thyroid gland causes small, fat, broad hands, white and flabby, and a personality that is kindhearted, open-minded but unstable and lacking in concentration. The overdeveloped thyroid gives a long, bony hand, with thin bony fingers and an active, vivacious personality...
...long hand with long, bony fingers, firm muscles and flat palm, long nails with well developed moons, and many deep, clear-cut palm lines belongs to tall, slender people, nervous and excitable, vivacious, popular, successful, in danger of becoming egotistical. They will tend toward disease of the thyroid, tuberculosis or nervous disorders. Among them are many tennis champions, polo players, dancers and engineers...