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Bndocrinopathic Constitutions and Pathology of War*

N. Pende

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medicine.medical_specialtyConstitutionbusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectClinical studyDisease susceptibilityEndocrinologyEndocrinologyInternal medicinemedicineHabitusBorder linebusinessBodily secretionsmedia_common

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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 hypothyroid habitus, and also, though not so thoroughly, the hyperthyroid; we owe to the American investigators, and especially to Cushing, a knowledge of the mild forms of hypo- and hyper-pituitarism; while the hypoadrenal constitution has been first studied in Italy (Constitutional angihypotony of A. Ferranini and the...

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