Bndocrinopathic Constitutions and Pathology of War*

The clinical study of the internal secretions opens a vast field of research, so far little known, notwithstanding its great value in practical medicine. Particularly important are those states of hormonic imbalance which are at the border line between health and disease, and which represent either latent or mild endocrinopathic conditions, real endocrine diatheses or endocrinopathic temperaments. It is already understood that for each of the best known endocrine glands, in addition to frank malfunctions there must be recognized minor degrees of perturbation giving rise to the endocrinopathic habitus. To the French writers, especially Levi and Rotschild, we owe much of our knowledge of the …