Show Dr Brady Says Too Active Thyroid Gland to Treatment II By William Brady of the thyroid gland causes a number of symptoms symptoms symptoms toms to develop which are highly typical of the disease Loss of w weight e i g h 11 t emo- emo r f ional instability ii i r t tremor I e m 0 r of the J h hands a and n d s intolerance S l ance ante oC of heat and w tt perspiration j i profuse pi i bon tion and in some instances protrusion protrusion protrusion J sion of the eyeballs eyeballs eyeballs eye eye- balls d develop eve lop Rapid pulse is Dr Brady rad one of the constant symptoms Surgical operation is a successful successful successful success success- ful method of dealing with this disease In this operation a large part of the offending gland is re removed removed re- re moved with the object of reducing the function functioning ng capacity of the gland Results following successful operation are immediate and usually usually usually ally permanent Hazard Slight With adequate preliminary preparation of the patient and skillful 51 operation the hazard in involved involved involved in- in is slight However an occasional occasional occasional oc oc- oc- oc untoward complication may result under the most favorable favorable favorable favor favor- able circumstances The accidental severance of a nerve which actuates actuates actuates actu actu- ates the larynx or voice box causes a lifelong hoarseness Accidental Accidental Acci Acci- dental removal of the adjacent parathyroid glands may result in m muscle u use s c I 1 e twitching cramps spasm of the muscles of the wrists and ankles requiring perhaps lifelong treatment These accidental developments are unfortunately very rare But the victim of the accident derives very little solace from this fact Even without the outside possibility ity of oC an accident of this type occurring occurring occurring oc oc- oc- oc be a person could hardly expected to regard the operation with pleasure Iodine has long been employed as a medical treatment for thy- thy disease Its use lse may result in improvement and many persons have used it constantly year after year in an effort to avoid opera opera- tion As a scientific procedure iodine is used nowadays only as a means of preparing a a patient for operation Radioactive Iodine In recent years radioactive iodine has been used as a curative curative curative cura cura- tive procedure with very encouraging encouraging encouraging aging results While surgery will probably always be required in thyroid tumors radioactive iodine Jodine may in time supplant surgery as asa asa asa a method of dealing with thyroid In an effort to avoid surgery X-ray X treatment has been given exten extensive ive trial Results have been Signed letters not more than ono one page or words long pertaining pertaining per per- taming to personal health and h hygiene gene not to disease diagnosis or treatment will be answered by hy Dr Brady if a stamped self- self addressed envelope Is enclosed etc to the Salt Lake Telegram Home Service Bureau Salt Lake City City- 10 Utah favorable and unfavorable The unfavorable results have been such that X-ray X treatment is seldom used any more Here and there of course may W be be found a physician physician physician cian who still employs the method in the conviction that it is a useful procedure A drug 1 is now being used extensively in the treatment treatment treatment treat treat- ment of so-called so or hyperthyroidism It is established that this drug will cure many cases eases although it is routinely used as a method of preparation of a patient for operation Its use re requires requires requires re- re quires constant expert supervision involving frequent examination of the blood for evidence of untoward effect Diagnosis Made When the diagnosis of thyroid disease is made the choice of method of treatment must be based upon several considerations The Biere piere fact that some cases may be handled without operation does docs not mean that all can The increasing success of oC treatment however should justify full consideration of this development development development develop develop- ment before the decision to operate operate operate oper oper- ate is made Simple enlargement of the thyroid thyroid thyroid thy thy- roid gland simple gland simple goiter with goiter with without out evidence of or may in time yield to methods Results along this line have not been very encouraging to date Surgical removal removal removal re re- re- re moval of the goiter largely as a cosmetic and preventive procedure is less r risky than surgery for toxic goiter Finally we have little knowledge at this time lime of the future place of hormone therapy in thyroid dis dis- ease It is possible that research now under way may revolutionize our current concepts of this disease disease disease dis dis- dis- dis ease very soon Questions and Answers More Than One Way ay to Happiness After seventeen years ears of childless childless childless child child- less marriage we have finally been able to adopt a old month baby and we are very happy we wish to raise her as a Brady Baby T. 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H Answer Answer Autographed Autographed copies of The New Brady Baby Book are available free to all readers who tell me they have adopted babies People who merely have their own babies may obtain a copy by sendIng sendIng sending send send- ing twenty-five twenty cents and stamped self addressed envelope and asking for it in writing Theres There's something something something some some- thing particularly appealing about people who adopt babies Something Something Something Some Some- thing fine about them in another way way the the happiness they derive from having a baby or babies or children to care for is or should be bean bean bean an object lesson for couples who remain childless for more than five years A considerable number of young couples are not blessed until nearly three years of marriage A Afew Afew few are arc re blessed after more than ten years of childlessness But as a general rule a couple should begin l looking oking for a child or children to adopt if they are arc not blessed within five years Even should one I of their own arrive after they have ha I adopted others the more the mer mer- rier |