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 PAPEBS. equal in both ears. Eyes normal, as to vision, pupils, etc. ihere has never been any exophthalmus, tachycar- dia or ner\ ous symptoms. THYROID FEEDING. Patient began with the five grain English tabloids a year ago and continued to take them with very great regu- larity for a period of seven mouths. At the end of the second week the goiter felt soft and pliable and the neck measurement fell otf one centimeter. The pulse became normal in frequency and was less strong and full. The patient felt more tired and dull and the appetite was poor. His weight decreased four pounds. Gradu- ally the dose of thyroid was increased and at the end of four weeks he was taking thirty grains a day. The ex- cretions were stimulated and the patient lost another four pounds. There was no headache, but a dull, languid feel- ing. He felt more tired on getting up than on going to bed. The neck measurement was reduced 2.5 centimeters. Three weeks later the dose was forty-five grains which he stood well for nearl} four weeks. The chief symptom was the feeling of weakness in the knees (Paraparesis, ('harcot). After stopping the drug a few days, he resum- ed at a smaller dose. In the fourth month his nmight had been reduced eighteen pounds. In two weeks’ rest from the medicine he made up this loss, but the neck did not increase correspondingly, as might have been expected. During the next three months, patient would take the drug in varying amounts as he seemed to bear it. His weight remained normal at one hundred and seventy-five ])Ounds and it did not decrease. The sleep was good and all the functions of the body were normal. The neck measurements reached 46.5, a total gain of 6 centimeters or 2 .3-8 inches. , The patient now omitted the thyroid feeding one month and at once began to make more blood and gain fiosh. The goiter did not change much in size, however, until near the end of this time, when he was sub- jected to an unusual strain of stooping over and lifting](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22330410_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
