Here is some info I extracted from an old medical book. This doctor
was a specialist in treating hormonal imbalances using a diathermy
machine.
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The two diseases which we have to do here, are a hypofunction, of
which tetany (Researcher's comment: Tetany - Involuntary muscle
contractions or twitching) is the result, and a hyper-function by
which the disease of Recklinghausen may manifest itself. (Sect. 9 II
D). (Researcher's comment: Von Recklinghausen disease is now called
Neurofibromatosis)

With tetany we find a hypo-calcemia, so a decreased calcium amount in
the blood with Recklinghauses a hyper-calcaemia. Both are relatively
rare diseases.

I have examined and treated a number of patients for the disease of
Recklinghausen. We found herewith a primary hyper-function of the
thyrotropic centre. By treatment of H and G the prominent symptoms
disappeared, especially the hyper-calcemia, the de-calcification and
the attending pain in the bones.

I cannot find as adenoma with any of these patients. As is known,
repeatedly publications have appeared in which is said that these
patients suffer from an adenoma of the parathyroid glands, and it was
seen that the disease diminished after the removal of the adenoma.
This deviation is not entirely identical with the disease of
Recklinghausen. A benignant adenoma is the result of a hyper-function
of the gonadotropic centre. In case of such an adenoma the specific
cells preserve their capacity to produce parathyroid hormone.
Therefore by the increase of the number of specific cells also the
production of the parathyroid hormone has been raised. To this fact
it must be ascribed that the symptoms of the disease decrease by the
removal of the adenoma.

On the basis of spectroscopial examination the disease of
Recklinghausen must be considered as a hyper-production of the gland
owing to the stimulation from the thyrotropic centre.

About the part of the parathyroid glands in all kinds of forms of
lithiasis, especially of renal calculus and biliary calculus, see
Chapt. 9 II D and 13 A.

Though I had not the opportunity to examine patients with tetany
spectroscopically and to treat them causually, and consequently have
no experience of this disease, it is probable that tetany is the
result of a hyper-function of the gonadotropic centre. If this
appears to be the case, then success is to be expected with short-
wave-treatments of hypophysis and thyroid gland, according to the
degree of the disease combines or not with substitutiion therapy and
eventually also with the administration of vitamin D and AT 10.

'Endogeneous Endocrinotherapy Including The Causal Cure of Cancer
Compendium' by Jules Samuels M.D. 1947 -Holdert & Co. - Amsterdam,
Netherlands
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--- In neurofibromatosis2@yahoogroups.com, Sherrie in Florida
<Sherriebaby65@...> wrote:
>
> welcome! My name is Sherrie(41yr). I have NF1 and was diagnosed
when I was 6mo old. I have all the cafe au lait spots and several
subcutaneous bumps (they look like mosquito bites). I have an 8yr old
daughter also has NF1 and she was diagnosed at 4mo old. She has
several cafe au lait spots, and had brain surgery Sept 2006 to remove
a begnign tumor onher hypothalmus gland. We live in FL
>
> SNIP