Word: thyroids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about the next day; within a week they report a loss of pain or even discomfort. Some who had been resigned to an early death have begun virtually new lives after hypophysectomy controlled the recurrence or spread of colonizing cancers. Maintenance medication is simple: regular tablets of cortisone and thyroid hormone suffice for most; one in four also needs pitressin (to control water balance), which is taken like snuff...
After operations and heavy X-ray treatments for cancer of the thyroid, Mrs. Leota Rogers, 21, seemed to be getting along well at a ranch near Moses Lake in central Washington. She was riding her own horses and helping around the house. But a fortnight ago, as she finished an afternoon snack, the carotid artery in the right side of her neck burst where it had been weakened by the cancer and treatment. Blood spurted halfway across the room. Mrs. Rogers took the first step toward saving her life by plugging the pencil-size hole with her finger...
Since the thyroid is the key organ in metabolism, and since radioactive iodine-131 makes a beeline for the thyroid, a simple check with a scintillation counter held against the throat can show when it is overactive: an overactive thyroid removes more iodine-131 from the blood than a normal one, and this shows in a higher reading on the dial of the counter. Moreover, where the atomic cocktail test was once thought to require a second visit to the laboratory for a reading 24 hours afterward, researchers at the Navy's Radioisotope Laboratory in Bethesda, Md. now find...
Three Hormones. Senora R. withstood the operation amazingly well. Within a week the pain of her cancer had gone and she needed no more morphine. Dr. Schutte now supplies only three hormones as substitutes for those produced or governed by the pituitary: cortisone, desoxycorti-costerone and thyroid. Today, 95% of the outward signs of her cancer have disappeared...
Broadly speaking, stress diseases are caused when the "combat mechanism" of the body goes into action under some shock, the thyroid demanding a "purposeless increase" in metabolic output, the pituitary sending ACTH flooding to the adrenals, and the blood pressure, blood salt and blood sugar increasing. Once stimulated by shock, the mechanism keeps on going. The human system is exhilarated, but badly unbalanced. Exhaustion usually follows, often with a dangerous lowering of the body's normal resistance to infection...