Desiccated thyroid from older Medical Books

This is an ongoing lis­ting of entries from older medi­cal books and research con­cer­ning the use of Thy­roid Extract (aka Desic­ca­ted Thy­roid, or Natu­ral Thy­roid Hor­mo­nes like Natu­reth­roid, Erfa’s Thy­roid, etc). If you would like to con­tri­bute an entry from an older health book, please send using the Con­tact Me form below, and inc­lude title, author, date, publishers, and page num­bers of entries. Your entry will be very appreciated!

P.S. If you copy and paste anything from the below, please be pro­fes­sio­nally cour­teous and add where you found the below, i.e. on this page on STTM.

1) 1951 The NEW MODERN MODERN MEDICAL COUNSELOR; A Prac­ti­cal Guide to Health by Hubert O. Swar­tout, MD, DNB, Dr.PH, Review and Herald Publishing Association

Chap­ter 30 DISEASES OF THE DUCTLESS GLANDS, then the subhea­ding called MYXEDEMA, and the sub area tit­led “WHAT SHOULD BE DONE” pg. 507

“Take thy­roid extract under a phy­si­cians super­vi­sion.” Then in the last para­graph, pg. 508:
“Some con­ve­nient pre­pa­ra­tion made from the whole thy­roid gland subs­tance is the ratio­nal remedy for myxe­dema. It brings about remar­ka­ble impro­ve­ment. The patient feels bet­ter, thinks more clearly, and looks bet­ter. There is likely to be con­si­de­ra­ble reduc­tion in excess weight. Neverthe­less, the remedy must be taken with care, espe­cially during the first few weeks of treat­ment, for too sud­den an acce­le­ra­tion of the body pro­ces­ses may throw too great a bur­den upon the wea­ke­ned organs, par­ti­cu­larly the heart. The return to nor­mal con­di­tions should be brought about by gra­dual inc­rea­ses in the dosage and should be spread over a period of at least seve­ral months.”

2) 1953 PHYSICIAN’S DESK REFERENCE TO PHARMACEUTICAL SPECIALTIES AND BIOLOGICALS 1954, Eighth Edi­tion, Copy­right 1953 by Medi­cal Eco­no­mics, Inc., Ruther­ford, New Jer­sey. (thanks to Mary32 for sub­mit­ting this entry)

page 417, under “Thy­roid U.S.P” Dosage: “1/10 to 5 GRAINS DAILY, AS REQUIRED BY THE CLINICAL CONDITION OF THE PATIENT. Uses: “Use­ful in patients who are on long term the­rapy with ACTH or cor­ti­sone to off­set any thy­roid depression.”

Under “Thy­roid U.S.P.”: “Requi­red daily quan­tity may be given in a sin­gle dose (pre­fe­rably in the mor­ning), ins­tead of seve­ral times a day.” (from Janie – we have found the multi-dosing to be bet­ter and less stress on the adrenals)

3) 1940 – 41 G.P. ETHICAL SPECIALTY PRODUCTS a cata­log pro­du­ced by G.P. Pty Ltd., Manu­fac­tu­rers of Stan­dar­di­zed Bio­lo­gi­cal and Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal Pro­ducts. Labo­ra­to­ries and Head Office: 65 Mac­qua­rie Street, Syd­ney, Australia.

One of their pro­ducts, called G.P. Thy­roid (Stan­dar­di­zed), is lis­ted on pages 38 – 39. Com­po­si­tion: A spe­cially pre­pa­red extract of selec­ted whole thy­roid gland, con­tai­ning 0.1 per cent of iodine in com­bi­na­tion. Indi­ca­tions: Myxoe­dema and other thy­roid defi­ciency disor­ders; obe­sity; oedema. Pro­per­ties: Inc­rea­ses basal meta­bo­lism and sti­mu­la­tes diu­re­sis. G.P. THYROID is che­mi­cally assa­yed and each batch, before issue, is BIOLOGICALLY STANDARDIZED BY THE OBSERVATION OF CHANGES IN THE METABOLIC RATE OF MYXOEDEMATOUS PATIENTS OVER A PERIOD OF AT LEAST ONE MONTH.
Dosage and Admi­nis­tra­tion: 1 or more, accor­ding to the amount of fresh subs­tance the phy­si­cian desi­res to presc­ribe. N.B. Each 1 gr. fresh of G.P. THYROID is equi­va­lent in total iodine con­tent to 3/10 gr Thy­roi­deum Sic­cum B.P. 1932. Ori­gi­nal Pac­ka­ges: Bott­les of 100 tablets in the follo­wing strengths: 1/4 grain fresh gland, 1/2 grain fresh gland, 1 grain fresh gland, 1 1/2 grain fresh gland, 2 grain fresh gland, 2 1/2 grain fresh gland, 5 grain fresh gland.

There was also a tablet com­bi­ning Thy­roi­deum Sic­cum with Desic­ca­ted Ova­rian Subs­tance from “fresh whole ova­ries”. The indi­ca­tions for this were mens­trual and meno­pau­sal disor­ders; disor­ders ari­sing from insuf­fi­ciency of ova­rian sec­re­tion, par­ti­cu­larly when there is a ten­dency towards obe­sity. It was desc­ri­bed as “potent ova­rian subs­tance, the­ra­peu­ti­cally inten­si­fied by the syner­gis­tic action of thy­roid gland”.

G.P. Ethi­cal Spe­cialty Pro­ducts were obtai­na­ble through all che­mists in Aus­tra­lia, and also in Ran­goon (Burma), Colombo (Cey­lon), Hong Kong (China), Bang­kok (Siam)and many cities in India, Java, Malaya and New Zea­land, as well as Lon­don. Or direct from the Manu­fac­tu­rers. (thanks to Val for this contribution)

4) 1909/1935 A Sys­tem of Cli­ni­cal Medi­cine (for Stu­dents and Prac­ti­tio­ners) by Tho­mas Dixon Savill. Prin­ted in Great Bri­tain by But­ler and Tan­ner, Ltd.

Page 239: For cre­ti­nism aka when an infant is born with hypothy­roi­dism, Thy­roid extract, begin­ning with 1/2 grain doses, cau­ses a rapid and remar­ka­ble change. The skin become soft, the gene­ral con­for­ma­tion nor­mal, and if the treat­ment has not been too long dela­yed, the mind assu­mes its natu­ral vigour.   For full blown hypothy­roi­dism, called Com­plete Myxo­dema, The treat­ment is star­ted with thy­roid extract in very small doses – 1/8 to 1/4 grain three times daily, and the dose is inc­rea­sed until the go and the basal meta­bo­lism beco­mes normal.

5) 1906 A Manual of Metria Medica and Phar­ma­co­logy (for stu­dents, drug­gists, phar­ma­cists, and phy­si­cians) by Lea Brothers & Co. Phi­la­delphia and New York.

Page 663: Explains the making of Sheep Thy­roid desic­ca­ted pow­der: Remove exter­nal fat and con­nec­tive tis­sue from thy­roid glands taken from sheep imme­dia­tely after killing; cut glands across, rejec­ting any with cysts or are hyper­trophied, or other­wise abnor­mal;  mince finely with healthy glands, dry at 32 –to 38 degrees C. (90 – 100 degrees F), pow­der dried pro­duct, remove all fat by trea­ting with petro­leum ben­zin, dry resi­due.  It is a yello­wish, amorphous pow­der, slight pecu­liar odor, con­tai­ning the active ingre­dients of the thy­roid tis­sue, par­tially solu­ble in water, 1 part equals 5 parts of fresh glands, ash p.c. …plus more details.

6) 1911 TEXTBOOK OF MEDICINE (for stu­dents and pro­fes­sio­nals) by Dr Adolf v. Strum­pell, D.Appleton and Co. New York and London

Page 566: Hors­ley, Bircher and others hereu­pon made the first expe­ri­ments in the treat­ment of myxeo­dema in man with extract of thy­roid gland (sheep, cal­ves, etc.) At first sub­cu­ta­neous injec­tions of thy­roid extract were usually emplo­yed, but it was found that the inter­nal admi­nis­tra­tion of the subs­tance of the gland or any extract the­reof had an equally favo­ra­ble influence. There are already very many posi­tive obser­va­tions which show that all symp­toms of myxeo­dema in man may be made to disap­pear com­ple­tely in the course of a few months by the con­ti­nued inter­nal admi­nis­tra­tion of the thy­roid gland.  The most con­ve­nient and cer­tain form of admi­nis­tra­tion is in tablets.

7) 1932 THE PRACTIONERS LIBRARY OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY D.Appleton-Century and Co. New York and London

Page 1020: It has been pro­po­sed to treat mxye­de­ma­tous patients with 2 grains of desic­ca­ted thy­roid daily, by mouth, until the meta­bo­lic rate is nor­mal, and then to deter­mine the amount requi­red as a regi­min to main­tain the correct level.  (Thanks to Melissa for #4 – 7)

OLDER MEDICAL RESEARCH

1) 1957 THE RELATION OF THYROID GLAND ACTIVITY TO THE INCIDENCE OF DENTAL CARIES IN THE RAT research by David Bix­ler, PhD and Joseph C. Muh­ler DDS, PhD. Indiana Uni­ver­sity, Bloo­ming­ton, Ind. J DENT RES 1957; 36; 880 Also found here: http://jdr.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/36/6/880.pdf

Sum­mary of this study: “Pre­vious expe­ri­ments have shown that the inges­tion of a cario­ge­nic diet (from Janie: a high-carb diet which will cause den­tal cavi­ties) con­tai­ning desic­ca­ted thy­roid will sig­ni­fi­cantly reduce the inci­dence of den­tal caries in the rat. In this expe­ri­ment the impor­tance of the amount of food con­su­med daily by rats on such a regime was con­si­de­red. Under ad libi­tum fee­ding con­di­tions, desic­ca­ted thy­roid added to a cario­ge­nic diet sig­ni­fi­cantly redu­ced the den­tal caries inci­dence when com­pa­red to a con­trol group recei­ving the same diet without thy­roid. When con­trol ani­mals recei­ving a nonthyroid-containing cario­ge­nic diet were pair-fed with ani­mals recei­ving the same diet to which desic­ca­ted thy­roid had been added, the thyroid-fed ani­mals again demons­tra­ted a sig­ni­fi­cant dec­rease in caries inci­dence. These results indi­cate that dif­fe­ren­ces in food con­sump­tion which may result bet­ween expe­ri­men­tal groups is not an impor­tant fac­tor in explai­ning the anti­ca­rio­ge­nic action of desic­ca­ted thyroid.