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 VAPER8. 1. The p:enoral state of mind is not even and steady; that is, the patient is apt to be at one time over-sang\iine and enthusiastic, and at another gloomy and depressed, and inclined to pessimistic views. When health is below par this morbid view is apt to be hypochondriacal as re- gards his own condition. This tendency to hypochondria was well marked in patient’s father. 2. There exists a restless tendency in the patient’s mental habits as well as in his physical conduct. 3. Sensitiveness as to the opinion of others; very easi- ly offended. * 4. Rather stubborn in argument and not inclined to yield his opinion and entertain the testimony of the op- posite side. These characteristics are present and clearly exhibited, not only when patient is suffering from active goiter symi)toms but also when the gland is quiescent and the patient is in good condition. RESULTS OF THYROID FEEDING. 1. When ])afient began taking the five grain thyroid tabloids of Burroughs, Wellcome & Co., he was in a con- valescent stat(* from a general nervous condition, with goiter enlargement. The dose was one tabloid after each meal. In ten days the diminution of the size of the goiter, had decreased the measurement of the neck three-quar- ters of an inch, and the ]>ulse had dropped from one hun- dred and two to eighty. The apparently beneficial effect was very marked. The patient had no idea of the nature of the medicine and no suggestion was given him as to its effect. The signs of increased metabolism were indicated by greater quantity of urine passed, copious fecal dis- charges (for a short time only), free perspiration, loss of bodily weight. The only unpleasant symptoms noticed were a feeling of dulness and heaviness in the head with greater difficulty to think; the eyes also felt strained and patient would tire easily. As the patient became accustomed to the remedy these symptoms dis- appeared and the excretions were less pronounced. At](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22330410_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
