Organ of Internal Secretion

Organs of Internal Secretion

Ten years of work of the East Harlem Health Center in New York are recorded and evaluated in an interesting and enlightening manner. This health center demonstration in coordinated health and welfare work in a defined city area, initiated by the New York chapter of the American Red Cross, was undertaken by the Department of Health and 21 cooperating voluntary agencies of the city. This health c...

Comparative Physiology of Internal Secretion

TUBERCULOSIS AND HOW TO COMBAT IT. Second Edition. By Francis M. Pottenger, M. D. C. V. Mosby Co., Publishers, St. Louis, Mo. I928. 275 pp. This handbook, written, as the author states, for the patient and his friends, has been compiled from talks given by the author to his own patients at the Pottenger Sanatorium, Monrovia, California. Different chapters cover all the phases of the disease in ...

The Organs of Internal Secretion

This is a somewhat sketchy but interesting book. It deals with the organs of internal secretion and their diseases and therapeutic application, and is intended for busy general practitioners, who have read of the subject in various periodicals and who will naturally desire to have the subject treated in book form. Hormone-therapy is already recognised as a therapeutic agent, bat the books which...

Determination of organ doses in radioiodine therapy using medical internal radiation dosimetry (MIRD) method

Background: Radioiodine therapy has proven to be an effective method in the treatment of patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma after thyroidectomy. The scope of this study is to describe a method to obtain the dose of organs using medical internal radiation dosimetry (MIRD) method. At the end, the results of MIRD calculations were compared with thermoluminescent dosimeter (TLD...

The internal secretion of the pancreas.