Thyroid feeding in insanity : a summary of thiry cases treated by thyroid extract in the Derby Borough Asylum / by S. Rutherford Macphail and Lewis C. Bruce.

  • Macphail, S. Rutherford.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Thyroid feeding in insanity : a summary of thiry cases treated by thyroid extract in the Derby Borough Asylum / by S. Rutherford Macphail and Lewis C. Bruce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    A Summary of Thirty Cases Treated by Thyroid Extract in the Derby Borough Asylum.1 By S. RUTHERFORD MACPHAIL, M.D. Edin., Medical Superintendent, Derby Borough Asylum ; AND LEWIS C. BRUCE, M.D. Edin., Assistant Physician, Royal Asylum, Edinburgh ; late Assistant Medical Officer, Derby Borough Asylum. During the last three or four years the treatment of myx- edema by thyroid extract has revolutionised the prognosis )f this disease. This is strikingly illustrated by quotations 'rom the article “ Myxcedema ” in the two editions of Quciin’s dictionary of Medicine, both from the pen of Dr. Ord—First edition: “ The progress of the disease is not readily affected >y any remedy, the prognosis is altogether unfavourable.” .894 edition: “ It is evident that in respect to myxcedema we lave an effective cure in our hands not yet fully worked out, >ut even now constituting a very remarkable instance of the advancement of medical science. It is evident, also, that a lew method of therapeutics, the extension of which to other >rgans than the thyroid body offers great possibilities, is lereby added to the science and art of medicine.” M.ost observers are agreed that the thyroid gland exerts ome influence, direct or indirect, on the nervous system. >anquirico and Canalis affirm that the gland secretes some ! naterial which is necessary for the nourishment of the central 1 Bead at the Annual Meeting of the Caledonian Medical Society, held 't Inverness on 23rd August, 1894.