THE EFFECT OF FEEDING FOWLS ON THYROID GLAND

Abstract

Although the literature contains many reports of thyroid treatment in numerous species of animals, the only work found on thyroid feeding in fowls is that of C. J. and C. Parhon.* These investigators observed as a result of thyroid treatment marked excitability, tremors and complete ischemia of the comb. Increased resistance to fowl cholera was also reported. The observations herein reported were begun in the summer of 1919 at the Zoological Gardens of New Ascania in South Russia, under the guidance of Prof. Michael Zavadovsky. The work was continued during 1919 and 1920 in the laboratory of Prof. B. P. Babkin at Odessa. From the fall of 1920 on, the work has been continued at our own laboratory at Moscow. During this period over sixty fowls have been experimented upon, not including controls.