Word: hyperthyroidism
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Also a disease of metabolism, diabetes is an inability of the body to use sugars. Diabetics can absorb sugar into their bloodstream, but unlike hyperthyroid patients, they cannot burn it up. The sugars merely "stagnate" in the blood until they pass into the urine. A physician who finds an excess amount of sugar in his patient's urine may assume that he is suffering from both hyperthyroidism and diabetes. But the diseases need opposite treatments. Diabetics, who cannot make use of the sugars they already have, must be deprived of carbohydrates; hyperthyroids, who burn up their sugars too rapidly...
...plants, but not normally present in human blood. After an hour, a drop of blood is taken from an ear lobe, and tested for the presence of galactose. A normal person will have from 20 to 30 milligrams of the sugar in every hundred cubic centimetres of blood; a hyperthyroid. around 70 milligrams; a diabetic, whose thyroid is not stepped up, shows the same amount of galactose as a normal person, although, of course, his blood and urine are saturated with unused body sugars...