A text-book of pharmacology and therapeutics; or, The action of drugs in health and disease, . and in its congenital absence or atrojihy (s])oradic cretin-ism) the most remarkable iuii)rovement follows its use, the jiatientsfrom a condition of idiocy regaining practically normal is of the first imi)ortaiice to connnence the treatment as soon as thecondition is recognized and to continue it with careful observationthroughout life, for its abandonment leads to a s])cedy ri-lapsc to the THYROID GLAND 53 former condition. At the same time the dose should not be larger thanis necess
A text-book of pharmacology and therapeutics; or, The action of drugs in health and disease, . and in its congenital absence or atrojihy (s])oradic cretin-ism) the most remarkable iuii)rovement follows its use, the jiatientsfrom a condition of idiocy regaining practically normal is of the first imi)ortaiice to connnence the treatment as soon as thecondition is recognized and to continue it with careful observationthroughout life, for its abandonment leads to a s])cedy ri-lapsc to the THYROID GLAND 53 former condition. At the same time the dose should not be larger thanis necessary and may have to be \aried from time to time as circum-stances change. Unless the treatment is begun early no completereturn to the normal is obtained, although improvement is observedeven in neglected cases. The use of thyroid preparations in these conditions, in which thegland is atrophied, is readily understood. On the other hand it seemsanomalous to employ it in cases of enlargement of the gland (goitre).Yet great improvement is seen from thyroid treatment in many of Fig. 67 Fic. OS.
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