Show bulging eyes pituitary ill bug eyed persons suffer from a disease of the pituitary gland at the base of the brain the american medical association was told the not infrequent condition of protruding eyeballs has heretofore b been en regarded as a disturbance of the t h e thyroid gland in the neck dr robert B aird of san francisco declared but it has been found that the condition often persists even after the goiter or overgrowth of the thyroid has been removed over secretion of hormones from the pituitary he said causes the muscles around the eyeball to enlarge and fibrous tissue to form thrusting eyes outward from their sockets unless the condition is relieved by operation the person may develop ulcers of the eyes infections and possible fatal disease of the brain dr aird declared |