just curious homemade thyroid

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I'm just curious, but before you could go to the store to buy your thyroid

medication...what did people do or didn't they know about it prior to the

pills? I just know I remember hearing that they would get it from pigs

thyroids. So did they actually give people a little of the pig thyroid to eat?

Just curious as I was thinking about that. If that's what they did...how did

they judge how much to give if you couldn't check levels? My friend and I

were talking about her son with diabetes and how did they used to get

insulin or test blood etc. So it got me thinking about this. Does anyone know?

I

don't even know how to look that up online.