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A. JORDI, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1932;49(4):541-577.

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In 1916, Graham¹ applied the Gudernatsch test to goitrous material of various kinds and showed that a certain definite relationship exists between the iodine and colloid content and the physiologic activity of tadpoles on which the test is made. Since then a great number of similar experiments have been carried out in different countries on every kind of goiter. Particular reference might be made to the work of Wegelin and I. Abelin,² of C. Abelin,³ and of Branovaky⁴ on normal and abnormal human thyroid glands of all clinical and histologic groups; of Wydler⁵ and of Dubois⁶ on the goiters of cretins, and of Branovaky and Pelech⁷ on certain malignant goiters. In 1923, Hara⁸ applied the Asher-Streuli test on rats to different types of goiter.

His findings were confirmed and extended by Branovaky.⁹ The conclusions drawn from those investigations of the Bern school were that only within one of the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Edith Claypole Memorial Research Fellow, 1928-1930 BERN, SWITZERLAND

From the George Williams Hooper Foundation and the Department of Bacteriology, University of California, San Francisco.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Feb. 28, 1931.

The results were partly reported at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Goiter, at Seattle, July 10-12, 1930.

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