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TOTAL THYROIDECTOMY IN THE TREATMENT OF DIABETES INSIPIDUS

TOTAL THYROIDECTOMY IN THE TREATMENT OF DIABETES INSIPIDUS Considerable advance has been made in recent years in the physiology of the thyroid gland in relation to the other organs of internal and of external secretion. However, during the past forty-five years, clinicians have reported improved elimination of water in certain forms of nephritis by the administration of desiccated thyroid and more recently of thyroxine, alone or combined with solution of parathyroid.1 No explanation for the effects noted has been forthcoming beyond the possibility that these drugs increase the mobilization and excretion of calcium. Early work has shown that there is a definite relation between the thyroid and the pituitary gland. As early as 1889 Rogowitsch2 found alterations in the pituitary glands of thyroidectomized dogs and rabbits in the nature of an increase in certain elements in the glandular or anterior portion. Shortly afterward, Hofmeister,3 Gley,4 Pisenti and Viola,5 Schönemann6 and others reported http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

TOTAL THYROIDECTOMY IN THE TREATMENT OF DIABETES INSIPIDUS

BLOTNER, HARRY; CUTLER, ELLIOTT C.
JAMA , Volume 116 (25) – Jun 21, 1941
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American Medical Association
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Copyright © 1941 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. Applicable FARS/DFARS Restrictions Apply to Government Use.
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0098-7484
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1538-3598
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10.1001/jama.1941.02820250005002
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Abstract

Considerable advance has been made in recent years in the physiology of the thyroid gland in relation to the other organs of internal and of external secretion. However, during the past forty-five years, clinicians have reported improved elimination of water in certain forms of nephritis by the administration of desiccated thyroid and more recently of thyroxine, alone or combined with solution of parathyroid.1 No explanation for the effects noted has been forthcoming beyond the possibility that these drugs increase the mobilization and excretion of calcium. Early work has shown that there is a definite relation between the thyroid and the pituitary gland. As early as 1889 Rogowitsch2 found alterations in the pituitary glands of thyroidectomized dogs and rabbits in the nature of an increase in certain elements in the glandular or anterior portion. Shortly afterward, Hofmeister,3 Gley,4 Pisenti and Viola,5 Schönemann6 and others reported

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Published: Jun 21, 1941

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