Word: thyroids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some patients begin well, then reach a "plateau," stop losing. Only then, as a rule, does Dr. Cutting resort to thyroid. Generally he avoids it because, except in doses large enough to be dangerous (e.g., to the heart), thyroid is less effective than diet...
...search for the secret of living energy. Many of the animals he collected himself on hunting trips, from Hudson Bay (where he bagged a white whale) to Africa (where, when he was 72, he bagged a seven-ton elephant). Each animal was promptly dissected, its "energy-controlling organs"-heart, thyroid, brain, adrenals-measured and' examined on the spot...
...Caesarean sections were done three times during my 18 months in the service with 100% fatality. . . . Thyroid operations were preceded by doses of opium or digitalis or both. In many cases a resection [removal] of the entire gland was done. I, personally, plead guilty. . . . The operation was a very easy one-a complete resection of both lobes and isthmus, with the usual speedy outcome-death within 24 hours...
...days' observation usually uncovers high blood pressure induced by benzedrine sulfate, low blood pressure induced by thyroid extract and other drug-induced disorders. In 1918 an A.E.F. hospital had an entire ward full of sufferers from a mysterious, persistent diarrhea. An observer camouflaged as another patient discovered that all the diarrhetics were bribing a night orderly to steal purgatives for them...
This reproductive debility may be over come by a variety of treatments, including thyroid pills, and especially a quiet, moderate life with plenty of exercise and nutritious food. (Farmers, says Dr. Hamblen, seldom have to worry.) Temporary sterility may be caused by fever, or a heavy dose of sulfanilamide. Serious physical hurts, such as damaged testes, are usually irreparable. Sometimes sperm ducts, like fallopian tubes, become obstructed, can occasionally be opened by a catheter...