Word: thyroids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...September 1949, after his trial, Mindszenty was suffering acutely from "my old disease, my thyroid disturbance." Transferred to Budapest's Conti Prison, he was held in solitary confinement for four years, the cells on each side of him empty to prevent wall-tapping communication. His cell was "small and crumbling. There was a straw mat to sleep on, a table, a stool, a small bucket for one's needs and another for water." While in solitary, "I received no mail, read no newspapers and no books except my breviary and my Bible . . . Each day I said my rosary...
Last week three doctors on the staff of Manhattan's Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases reported the first substantial breakthrough on the radiation-damage front. Noting that patients with overactive thyroids seemed to suffer less radiation injury, they tried a synthetic thyroid hormone product, triiodothyronine. Of 26 patients who got the "T3" in an ointment within two to four weeks after damaging radiation, 22 showed a good to excellent response; in two it was only fair, and two had to give up because of allergic reactions. All 26 reported immediate relief of pain...
...from the operating room, says Baylor University's Dr. Arthur S. Keats. But this pain is by no means universal. He and many other researchers have found that few patients complain of pain after a surprisingly long list of major operations-surgery on the head and neck (including thyroid), hand and wrist, genital organs, or after amputation, skin graft, removal of a breast, stripping of a vein, fracture reduction, nailing of a hip or dressing of a burn. The operations most consistently followed by pain are those in the chest and abdominal cavities...
...Thyroid. No abnormalities noted...
...Growth (somatotropic) hormone, ACTH (adrenocorticotropic), thyroid-stimulating (thyrotropic) hormone and, in women, three that regulate the reproductive cycle: follicle-stimulating (FSH), luteinizing (LH) and prolactin...