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ENDOCRINOLOGY IN PEDIATRICS 
By HYMAN GOLDSTEIN, M.D., New York City* 
It is the object of this essay to simplify the study of 
the endocrine disorders as they occur during infancy, 
childhood and early youth. In order to accomplish this 
one first must have a clear understanding of the physio- 
logical activity and relations of the glands of internal 
secretion. The effects produced through either hypo- 
function or hyperfunction of these glands, or both, 
cause a great many metabolic and growth disturbances 
early in life. It is, indeed, important to recognize these 
changes early—long before puberty, before the patho- 
logical changes in the organism become fixed and diffi- 
cult to treat—in order to get beneficial results. To suc- 
ceed in clearing various obscure points in the following 
chapters I will describe in brief detail the early and 
late pathological states produced by pluriglandular dis- 
turbances in the organism. The object of this arrange- 
ment is to enable the reader to compare these findings 
and thereby learn how to recognize the changes as they 
occur in infancy, childhood and early youth so that 
early treatment can be administered with the hope for 
good results in remedying the curable endocrinopathies 
and preventing adult dyscrinisms whenever possible. 
*The writer of this essay received the fourth prize of $50.00 
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