To mention but one example: the stunted, idiotic child that, because of congenital absence of the thyroid gland, formerly grew up to be a repellent, weak-minded man or woman, can now in a few short months be made the peer of most of its kind.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
The penalty of unmerited food had produced an autotoxic anaemia, and she was pale and weepy, easily fatigued, sleeping poorly, with the boggy thyroid and overactive tendon reflexes so common in subacidosis.
"Our Nervous Friends Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness"
Robert S. Carroll
A crystallization of ideas about the true function of the thyroid was now inevitable.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.