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  • n  hypothyroidism marked by dry skin and swellings around lips and nose as well as mental deterioration

  • Pernicious anemia, he showed, is a deficiency disease in a category with diabetes and myxedema.
  • Perhaps reading too far, Torrilhon detects myxedema (underactive thyroid) in the swollen eyelids, sparse lashes, dry hair and "shivering, apathetic aspect" of the bride in the .
  • The investigators suggest that this dinitrophenol dose be tried cautiously for myxedema and other phenomena of sub-functioning thyroids.

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