Word: thyroids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. Serge Voronoff, 85, Russian-born surgeon and scientist, who became famous in the '20s as "the monkey-gland man," because of his operations for rejuvenation by the transplanting of testicles and thyroid glands; after a brief illness; at Lausanne, Switzerland...
...body's hormone system is out of kilter, says Dr. Means, the sound thing to do is simply to make up the deficiency-e.g., give thyroid hormone to a patient whose thyroid gland is not producing enough. But that is not what a doctor does, says Means, when he gives ACTHand cortisone in large doses...
Response to Diet. The offending molecules occurred in every patient with an underactive thyroid, and in more than 90% of those with high blood pressure or coronary insufficiency. Perhaps even more significant for the future: more than half of the men and a third of the women with no known disease of the heart or arteries showed high levels of Sf 10-20 molecules. These people, Dr. Gofman suggested, may be those who, in time, will develop atherosclerosis...
Radioactive fading, explain the doctors, slows down the tempo of the body by reducing the amount of thyroxin secreted from the thyroid gland. The work load on the heart is thus reduced...
...able to remember that "Horsefeathers" is the one in which Chico, Harpo, Groucho, and Zeppo careen through Huxley College in a garbage-wagon chariot, among other conveyances. In "Monkey Business' the Marx boys plague the captain, crew, and passengers of an ocean liner like four hyper-thyroid Nemeses. But plots count for nothing when the Marx Brothers are around. In fact, everything counts for nothing--except unending hysterical laughter--when the Marx Brothers are around...