EXOPHTHALMIC GOITER AND BASAL METABOLISM

Exophthalmic Goiter and Its Medical Treatment

would remain in the way of novelty to be disclosed by the latest edition of the newest text-book. True enough, Doctor Snow failed to point out the supremely unimportant facts that the "morbid material . . . most likely . . . a cell" is monotrichic, and that a cholera-red reaction may be obtained, but for sheer downright common sense his concept of cholera is commendable. It is too easy, with th...

Exophthalmic Goiter and Its Non-Surgical Treatment

Surgical Treatment. -By Israel Bram, m.d. C. V. Mosby Company, St. Louis, 1920. Thk author should entertain no fear that his book may not be tolerated: it rather requires a welcome. The whole subject of Graves' disease is carefully reviewed: no new theories of its pathogenesis are advanced, but the author inclines to the view that the hyperthyroidism of the disease is itself an incidental produ...

Exophthalmic Goiter and Its Medical Treatment

Factors Affecting Basal Metabolism

Superficial observations have led us to the general belief that the vital processes are much the same with average individuals. It is true that we are inclined to classify people as high-strung and nervous on the one hand and phlegmatic on the other; yet, on the average, the normal individual apparently has a metabolic plane comparable to his neighbor’s, for the general uniformity in the energy...

Basal Metabolism in Health and Disease