OUR GROWING UNDERSTANDING OF THYROID FUNCTION AND ITS CLINICAL APPLICATION
Authors: J H MEANS
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1957)

Article1 November 1957OUR GROWING UNDERSTANDING OF THYROID FUNCTION AND ITS CLINICAL APPLICATIONJ. HOWARD MEANS, M.D., F.A.C.P.J. HOWARD MEANS, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-47-5-853 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIt is a great pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, for me to address the College once more on a subject long dear to me—the thyroid. The justification for attempting so comprehensive an approach in so short a time is that, because I am older than most of you, I can perhaps give a perspective in depth which those of you who have come into the field more recently cannot have got by personal experience.As far as I can recall, I first met the thyroid when I was a freshman in Harvard College in 1904. In an elementary course in anatomy,...Bibliography1. Nièpce B: Traité du goitre et du crétinisme. Suivi de la statistique des goîtreux et des crétin dans le bassin de l'Isère en Savoie, dans les départments de l'Isère, des Hautes-Alpes et des Basses-Alpes, 1851, J. B. Baillière, Paris. Google Scholar2. Salter WT: The endocrine function of iodine, 1940, Cambridge, Harvard University Press. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. RawsonGrahamRiddell RWRMCB: Physiological reactions of the thyroid stimulating hormone of the pituitary, Ann. Int. Med. 19: 405, 1943. LinkGoogle Scholar4. HaringtonBarger CRG: Chemistry of thyroxine. III. Constitution and synthesis of thyroxine, Biochem. J. 21: 456, 1927. Google Scholar5. GrossPitt-Rivers JR: 3:5:3′ Triiodothyronine; isolation from the thyroid gland and synthesis, Biochem. J. 53: 652, 1953. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar6. Pitt-Rivers R: Physiological activity of the acetic acid analogues of some iodinated thyronines, Lancet 2: 234, 1953. CrossrefGoogle Scholar7. Goetsch E: Functional significance of mitochondria in toxic thyroid adenomata, Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp. 27: 192, 1916. Google Scholar8. Means JH: The thyroid and its diseases, 2nd Ed., 1948, J. B. Lippincott Co. Philadelphia. Google Scholar9. StanburyMcGirr JBEM: Sporadic or non-endemic familial cretinism with goiter, Am. J. Med. 22: 712, 1957. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Boston, Massachusetts*Presented at the Thirty-eighth Annual Session of The American College of Physicians, Boston, Massachusetts, April 12, 1957.Requests for reprints should be addressed to J. Howard Means, M.D., 60 Mount Vernon Street, Boston 8, Massachusetts. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byFactors which influence the radioactive iodine thyroidal uptake test 1 November 1957Volume 47, Issue 5Page: 853-860KeywordsThyroidThyroid hormones ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 November 1957 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright ©, 1957, by The American College of PhysiciansPDF downloadLoading ...