Symptoms of So-called Hyposecretion
- Precocious graying of the hair.
- Drowsiness.
- Anorexia.
- Small stature.
- Puffiness of the face.
- Sallow complexion.
- Scanty hair.
- Deepset eyeballs.
- Dull and listless cornea.
- Hard, brittle nails.
- Scanty eyebrows.
- Cold, bluish, moist hands.
- Tending to chilblains.
- Irregularly developed teeth which decay easily.
- Defective development.
- Dry, thick, scaly skin.
- Acrocyanosis.
- Localized transitory edema.
- Urticaria.
Parathyroid Stigmata
- Intermittent cramps.
- Twitching of the hands.
- Tetany with associated symptoms.
Pituitary Stigmata
- Greatly thickened nose.
- Prominence of superciliary ridges.
- Tendency to increased tuftings of terminal phalanges.
- Coarse, heavy, overhanging eyebrows.
- Protruding thick lips.
- Prominent hypertrophied lower jaw.
- Increased sugar tolerance.
- Increased interdental spaces.
- Enlarged sella tursica.
- Hypertrophied nails.
- Hypertrophied, thickened skin.
- Short, square hands.
- High carbohydrate tolerance.
- Amenorrhea.
- Visceroptosis.
So-called Deficiency Symptoms
- Adiposity.
- Fat pads around the malleoli.
- Increased development of the mammary glands.
- Deposit of fat around the buttocks and the neck.
- Alabasterlike skin.
- Irregular menstruation.
- Subnormal temperature.
- Wide intercostal angle.
- Fatigability.
- Infantile uterus.
- Slow pulse.
- Sluggish mentality.
- Mononucleosis.
- Eosinophilia.
- Leucocytosis.
- Short stature.
- Childlike voice.
- Bitemporal headache.
- Supraorbital headache.
- Sterility.
Adrenal Stigmata
- Aggressive type of individual.
- Increased growth of hair on body.
- Masculine type of female and vice versa.
- Prominent canine teeth.