Long Island College Hospital - Lichonian Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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71 ei ll 3 ' img k sim Bam! Illetalmlisnz In Various Diseases.- All investigators agree that basal metabolism depends largely upon thyroid activity and that an increase in the activity of this gland raises the metabolic rate above normal, while a decrease in thyroid secretion depresses the rate below the normal level. YVhile other ductless glands, especially the pituitary and ovary, control metabolism to a lesser degree. bioreover, certain diseases such as fevers, lymphatic leukemia, hyperpituitarism, severe diabetes, cancer and pernicious anemia increase the metabolic rate, Whereas, starvation, hypo- pituitarism and wasting diseases decrease it. 7 Variations in Thyroid zlfiiirfity.-lt is in thyroid therapy that the basal metabolic rate is used most extensively by clinicians. As some one has tersely put it- In auto- mobile language the thyroid is the ignition System of the body. Under certain conditions any increase or decrease in heat production is usually due to a corresponding change in thyroid activity. The two extremes of its activity are easily recognized. It is the borderline cases, where either a slight hypothyroidism or a slight hyperthyroidism exists that is hard to recognize. Up to date the best measure of the degree of thyroid activity is the determination of the basal metabolic rate. In other words, it is now coming to be recognized that the determination of the basal metabolic rate is as indispensable as is the VVasserman reaction in syphilis, or- temperature determinations in fever. lVlAT'1'I-IEW S'1'EizL. ,, Bio-Chemistry Laboratory Page tliiigty-one Ei 'A Mig' rigs' lg! til I H l I-J! i an yi ,et ii W S4 hr! MM ilfii ltr! '12 I E-fi il? 751' hm lat' is 'b ,S E3 Ml, intl is f , ls s ir, ,Hi ru. Ls, Mil iw iliil lei ua Val rf. ifiil wi Eli: ,ffl li? 4 r S , rf , R951 ,si EQ, fe 1 -,L-f 'QI' , ,,'.' -J ', ,,f, -, 12,157 v. .. i' . 'H Ellalia ' - f ' 5. , if . ,hifi-rT?i: 9 its if It lf?tlElflfllrl?illP? f.'3,.'1ihng:f' Q :ff iris ,tar - 1-- -H' feng? I ' 5 5 Qi igirlflisgif? 1 t t . 5'j',,,.gfJ ,,-.s,,i 1

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f i 4 ffl , ., Q if A k .fe 'xg 54 1 ix' Nl . sz' 9 t, ' M' gf , 3 g I qlQf,1rJlI l Q- rs V All--. eg- 'A - ui . E if l' ' 'Q l 'ff'-' 1 ' fl ' ltr r i 'li QW at f r ' W 1 Q. i ' f i l ' v i at . ff r' xr i . it i . fi N ' 'A 'QQJ5' ' il A I -A ' ' 8. 5 lla :om H.5cHms '15 ay f HEN we .promised the editor or somebody one day to write something appropriate for the LICHONIAN, we were over-confident as to our ht- ll? E erary qualifications. That is obvious Cto usj now. Perhaps we mis- understood what the editor or somebody QArbuse has been on our trail fEi.Qi l ii ' ever since, and we have that guiltiest feeling every time he appearsl i-5' meant by appropriate, and we are afraid to ask him lest he didn't say that. Literary contributions ought to be left to the department of Bacteriology. Or why, Mr. Editor, did you not ask Professor Evans to do something in Chinese. Surely Doctor McTague would have told you a story, if you had asked him. XVe looked over some of the departmental articles of other years for an inspira- ff tion. One of the first things we saw was Professor Murray's plea for more autopsies. Hip i'Cheap stuff, take it awayf' Then we saw someone's plea for money. Now we are all going to plead for money. Next was a plea that the medical curriculum be com- posed of physiology, and-well, were you not really surprised yourself when 'you read iii! in those articles how large and important each department ought to be? just imagine what a big institution you would be attending, with all those departments standing out so prominently. But let us make a few suppositions. Suppose you tried to study the function-- apologies to Professor Ci2lI'dW'Cll--!IL'fi'Z'ifj' of the heart without knowing what the ilfjf heart was. Could you do it, even with the aid of the fourth dimension and the theory of lVIr. Einstein? Suppose you looked at a section showing some sort of interstitial nephritis Qthat's correct, isn't it?D before you had seen a normal for the usuall kidney with stroma and parenchyma. VVhat kind of a physical examination could you have ,Eg made before you became acquainted with some of the things that Piersol or Cunning- ffl, ham told you about? And what would you do in a case of appendicitis, if you didn't know what or where the appendix was? Then, too, imagine what would happen if you attempted a spinal puncture on the sternum. Every fourth-year student will ggi, remember, and others will learn, the importance of Hesselbach's triangle, and they never could practice Nledicine successfully without knowledge of the cells of Paneth. Day by day, in every way, you should learn more anatomy. ADAINI M. MILLER. Page llrirfy-llzrcu ra' rr ,filli-Aa, - 4?-Ai? 'H i' 1 -' Maxis-ir. -1 vrf -pr--,-,, - if 4-lf 'gb' V-'. lffffgif: ,. 5- laws trial i- froze ,A ay ,, 1 ef to gi Hill ll,t'iQi i s,.a,35?,-t ',1'fg YL 'LA I at-iii. . r 'ifffiiki Aman-f' nv- ---'--- :'f'f'a1' -L13 , , . r ti fi 15535523 Q+-,u