Thyroid feeding : with report of four cases / Frank K. Hallock.
- Hallock, Frank K., 1860-1937.
- Date:
- [1896]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Thyroid feeding : with report of four cases / Frank K. Hallock. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![MEDICAL PAPERS. Active tissue-change was evident by the free perspiration, [)assage of large amount of urine and frequent movements of the bowels. The patient rallied from the effect of the thj'roid feeding and a month later a second trial of the remedy was made. At this time the menses were twelve days overdue and the patient was in a nervous, restless state of mind with pulse at one hundred and twenty. Tremor was present and very marked. One quarter of a five grain tabloid was taken t. i. d. On the fourth night she awakened suddenly with vomiting and diarrhea and* for twenty-four hours her stomach could retain no food. Tliere was no fever and no sign of the menses until a week later. Thyroid was discontinued. Examination nine months afterwards showed her to be much improved. This is due, it is believed, to living under better conditions and also to a natural decline in the activity of the goiter symptoms. The exophthalmus is about the same. The th3u*oid enlargement is distinctly less noticeable. The thrill and murmur, which before were constant, are now rythmical and synchronous with the carotid impulse. The pulse is ninety-eight, small, and does not indicate arterial relaxation. The heart- sounds are less ringing and diffuse. The patient has lost weight and instead of the former anemic plumpness ap- ])cars much thinner, but in better color and blood. Men- struation occurs at intervals of three weeks and with somewhat more discomfort. There exists the same men- tal and physical unrest. The muscular restlessness is athetoid in character. CASE m. SIMPLE GOITER. Mr. C., age forty, born in Connecticut, married, mechanic. No special heredity—except that the mother is nervous. At eight years had whooping cough and later, pneumonia. The cough was severe and persistent and following this the goiter appeared, that is, in his ninth year. At first it was the size of a hickory-nut and only the isthmus was involved. Later, it developed more on the right side. It](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22330410_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
