This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...if not quite, unknown before the period of puberty and rarely begins after middle age. It is confined almost exclusively to the period of sexual activity and is especially common in the earlier part of that period. Of the above-mentioned ninety-six cases, twelve were, on admission, between the ages of fifteen and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...if not quite, unknown before the period of puberty and rarely begins after middle age. It is confined almost exclusively to the period of sexual activity and is especially common in the earlier part of that period. Of the above-mentioned ninety-six cases, twelve were, on admission, between the ages of fifteen and twenty, forty-five were between twenty and thirty, twenty-six between thirtv and forty, while only thirteen were over forty. Exophthalmic goitre does not occur as an endemic disease, and is not especially common in districts where ordinary goitre is endemic. Among a thousand cases of goitre seen by Dr. Savage in a goitrous district in the north of England, there was not a single case of Graves's disease. Dr. Montoya y Florez, Professor of Clinical Surgery at Medellin, Columbia, tells me that although endemic goitre is extremely common in that country, he has never seen there a case of exophthalmic goitre. Mv own inquiries in many goitrous districts both in England Via. 7u.--A typical case of Exophthalmic Goitre (Graves's Disease) in a young woman. (Seen in a medical ward at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.) and abroad point in the same direction, and tend to show that exophthalmic goitre is rare in places where ordinary goitre is common, and certainly is often found to exist in places where ordinary goitre is unknown. Dr. Maude, on the other hand, whose writings on exophthalmic goitre are so well known, appears to think that there is some connection between the distribution of the two diseases. M Pathology.--It must be confessed that the pathology of the disease is still obscure. The numerous theories that have been brought forward may be divided into three main classes, in which the cause of the malady is attributed to disease respectively of the centr...
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