Noun
iodothyrin (uncountable)
A lactose trituration of the active constituents of thyroid glands of sheep, historically used to treat goitre, rickets, corpulence, and myxedema.
Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly on the heels of the discovery of a disease as the establishment of the complete effectiveness of iodothyrin and thyroidin followed the recognition of cachexia thyreopriva. Emil Theodor Kocher