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Thyroid Hormone Replacement Therapy, 1891-1977

David L. Bunner, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1978;138(6):978-979.

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The first physician whom I knew well was my father. As a young boy I remember looking into a glass case at an instrument that had years before been used for the antique practice of bloodletting. When asked why it was not still used, he replied that new information had made it obsolete. Folk remedies that use herbs and incantations may, to a degree, always be with us, and practitioners of these arts will, I am sure, contribute real advances at times. There are also, however, the traditional scientists who plod along, trying to improve medicine from a base of known information. In the late 19th century, many such traditional doctors published their works in the British Medical Journal. In 1891 Murray¹ reported on the use of an extract of thyroid in hypothyroidism. In 1892 Fox² and MacKenzie³ showed, even more simply, that oral doses of fresh thyroid . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Reprint requests to Lutcher Brown Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, CA 92037 (Dr Bunner).

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