THE BASAL METABOLISM IN EXOPHTHALMIC GOITER

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

The Influence of Heredity in Exophthalmic Goitre.

The tendency in recent years has been to look upon exophthalmic goitre as a disease due to some acquired cause such as an infection of the teeth or tonsils, or to mental worry, and to disregard the inborn liability of certain individuals to develop the condition. Sir Archibald Garrod's Huxley Lecture on Diathesis delivered last Novemnber has been a timely reminder that in many diseases not actu...

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...