A few were physiological, for the investigation of the functions of the thymus gland, and of the effects of chloroform and ether on renal activity.
Is not the same thing true of the thymus gland, and the suprarenal capsules?
Such is the great similarity in the appearance of pus and of the secretion of the thymus that they cannot always be distinguished.
Still, complications of craniotabes with a large size of the thymus gland may occur, and enlargements of the tracheal and bronchial lymphatic glands are quite frequent, as we shall see below.
The thymus gland is occasionally found in syphilis to have undergone alterations claimed by Dubois, Depaul, and others to be syphilitic in their nature, but ascribed by Parrot simply to degenerative changes due to malnutrition.
There also seems to be some relation between thethymus and thyroid, for the former is frequently abnormal in diseases involving the latter (hyperthyroidism).
Pineal gland, red bone-marrow and thymus gland were admitted to New and Nonofficial Remedies when these products gave promise of having therapeutic value.
The term of acceptance for the preparations of pineal gland, red bone-marrow and thymus gland having expired, the referee in charge of animal organ preparations recommended in his report for the annual revision of N.
Pineal Gland, Red Bone-Marrow andThymus Gland and Their Preparations Omitted from N.
Thymus Gland Little is known as to the functions of the thymus, but it is believed to have an important relation to growth.
Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry The following report explaining the omission from New and Nonofficial Remedies of pineal gland, red bone-marrow and thymus gland and their preparations has been authorized for publication.
He therefore concludes that all lymphoid tissues in the body arise originally from the thymus gland, i.
The presence of thisthymus leucocyte-forming tissue, as described by Schaffer, is confirmed by Beard, and I myself have seen the same thing in my youngest specimen of Ammocoetes.
This suggestion of van Wijhe appears to me a remarkably good one, especially in view of the position of the thymus glands in Ammocoetes and the nephric branchial glands in Amphioxus.
It is in this very space, close against the gill-slits, that the thymus glands of Ammocoetes are found, in the very place where the nephric tubules of Amphioxus would be found if its atrial cavity were closed completely.
Here, then, in the thymus may be the missing mesosomatic coxal glands.
As van Wijhe himself remarks, the time is hardly ripe for making any positive statement about the relationship between the thymus gland and branchial excretory organs.
Officinally Thymol, the stearoptene obtained from the volatile oil of Thymus vulgaris, is directed to be given in a dose of from half to two grains.
Another variety of the Wild Thyme is Lemon Thyme (Thymus citriodorus), distinguished by its parti-coloured leaves, and by its lilac flowers.
Thymus and pineal keep him a child, keep him unsexed.
But his thymus condition forces him also to live for femininity and misery.
There is a definite degree of thymus activity during everyone's childhood, unless by its premature involution, precocity displaces juvenility.
So one may list: Infancy as the epoch of the thymus Childhood as the epoch of the pineal Adolescence as the epoch of the gonads Maturity as the epoch of whatever gland is left in control as the result of the life struggle.
It is after puberty, when the thymus should shrink and pass out of the endocrine concert as a power, that the more complex reactions of personality emerge when the thymus persists and refuses to or cannot retire.
For just as the thymus involutes at the second year, the pineal atrophies before the onset of adolescence.
The thymus is the great inhibitor of all the glands of internal secretion.
If thethymus retrogresses after the second year, what takes its place as a brake upon the forward driving impulses of the other endocrines?
Thus, the growth of the brain is presided over by the adrenal cortex, the thyroid, the thymus and the pituitary.
This type of protein is characteristic of all cell nuclei, and is particularly abundant in the highly nucleated secreting cells of the glandular organs, such as the liver, pancreas, and the thymus gland.
From the fresh flowering herb of Thymus serpyllum, the lemon or wild thyme of our hills and pastures.
The dark-coloured oil of origanum of the shops is obtained from Thymus vulgare.
As the lower part of the thymuscanal most often persists, an incomplete external fistula is the form most frequently met with.
These malformations are associated chiefly with imperfect development of the visceral or branchial arches and clefts, or of the hypoblastic diverticula from which the thyreoid and thymus glands are formed.
In children under two years of age the thymus gland may extend for some distance into the neck in front of the trachea and carotid vessels, under cover of the depressors of the hyoid bone.
The enlargement of thethymus may be part of a general lymphatic hyperplasia--known as the status lymphaticus.
The thymus gland begins to diminish in size towards the end of the second year, and by the time puberty is reached it has entirely disappeared.
It is nearly always accompanied by a distinct hypertrophy of thethymus gland.
The enlargement or persistence of the thymus can be better recognised, and doctors now seldom fail to notice it.
The thymus gland is an organ which occurs in the upper part of the thorax of the child, but which atrophies and practically disappears after the age of two years.
Linsmayer reported a case in which there was a softened adenoma in the pituitary body, and the thymus was absent.
Carper describes a fetus of thirty-seven weeks in whose thorax he found a very voluminous thymus gland but no lungs.
An investigation of just what material was being employed in the English cases showed that the butcher was supplying thymus and not thyroid glands.
Thymus was then deliberately used for a while and there were some reported good successes while the treatment was new and strongly suggestive.
The thymus gland is usually {501} persistent in these cases and this must represent something in the affection and at one time the use of thymus substance for therapeutic purposes seemed to confirm this idea.
Suggestion did the rest, for thymus has proved to be quite ineffective, and the treatment was entirely expectant but acted on a favorable state of mind.
The thymus gland lies on each side of the trachea, near the heart, and the thyroid gland is in the middle line, close to the base of the carotid artery.
The bands of muscle between hyoid, mandible, and sternum, and the thymus gland carefully cleared.
If thethymus be at fault, rapid amelioration of symptoms follows roentgenray or radium therapy.
Patterson the size of the thymus gland should be studied before an esophagoscopy is done on a child.
The thymus gland may conveniently be dealt with here, although its origin is nearly as obscure as its function.
He finds that in the Pig and the Sheep the thymus arises as a paired outgrowth from the epithelial remnants of a pair of visceral clefts.
Lastly, examine the mediastinum as to the condition of the thymus gland and great vessels outside the pericardium.
Ogston[919] holds that in infants that are smothered the ecchymoses are found in greater number in the thymus gland; while in adults dying from other forms of asphyxia they were found only once in that gland.
For cases of enlarged thymus gland, see Hofmann, op.
In front we find the sternum and the remains of the thymus gland.
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