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Overactivity of the vagus nerve is tied up with overactivity of the thyroid. Goitres, said Drs. Nahum and Hoff last week, "change the heart in such a way as to make it susceptible to overactivity of the vagus nerve. Some patients are naturally subject to vagus action. Some develop it reflexly from high blood pressure and it is probable that all hyper-thyroids are sensitive to the vagus nerve. In this way, overactivity of this nerve develops, which precipitates auricular fibrillation...
Thus a person with an underactive thyroid need not take thyroxin the rest of his life. Nor need one with a deficient parathyroid forever take calcium-bearing drugs to ward off spasms. If Professor Stone can extend his system of culturing minced glands to include the pancreas and the adrenals, he indicated last week, surgeons would have a simple, permanent cure for diabetes and Addison's disease. But, warned the able doctor: "No type or method of grafting can reasonably be expected to yield 100% successful results...
Johns Hopkins' Professor Harvey Brinton Stone was cautiously vague last winter when he let it be known that he was successfully transplanting human thyroid and parathyroid tissue by new methods (TIME, Dec. 18). More sure of his methods this year, Professor Stone has been publishing the details of this difficult surgical procedure in the Annals of Surgery. By last week, when he was asked to tell the American College of Surgeons (see p. 35) what he was doing, he had achieved sufficient boldness to pack his whole story into a few simple sentences. Said...
...Thyroids for Fatherhood, Premier Mussolini, who wants to raise every Italian boy to be a soldier, has discovered why, despite God, Nature and women, some Italians cannot become fathers. According to Research Director Allan Winter Rowe of Boston's Evans Memorial Hospital, the trouble with these peculiar Italians is that their thyroid glands neglect to secrete a newly-discovered hormone. The special duty of this hormone is to invigorate sperm cells. To reach and fertilize an ovum, a sperm cell must live at least 24 hours. Premier Mussolini found that the sperms of his peculiar Italians died before they...
...secretions of similar potency. Thus born was the modern science of endocrinology.* Since Brown-Séquard's original demonstrations more and more hormones have been discovered. They occur in the pineal gland in the middle of the brain; in the pituitary gland under the forebrain; in the thyroid, parathyroids and thymus in the neck; in the adrenals on top of the kidneys; in the pancreas at the stomach; in the stomach and intestines; in the ovaries and testicles. These hormones always work together. The pattern of their complicated interbalance makes every human being precisely what...