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HYPERTHYROIDISM WITH ORAL SEPSIS : 

 A CASE REPORT 



BY DR. FLORENCE STONEY, Bournemouth, England 



The following case is particularly instructive, even 

 now, when many doctors still do not concern themselves 

 with the condition of a patient's teeth, and when in face 

 of several years' experience many others still deny that 

 pyorrhea can cause hyperthyroidism, or that the conse- 

 quent D.A.H. (disordered action of the heart) does 

 occur with badly-wounded men, as well as in the un- 

 wounded. Unfortunately, if a man has a serious 

 wound, many times no notice is taken of this "neurotic" 

 condition, and he is left to the comparative seclusion 

 of his bed to recover a grip on himself if he can. 



It is very cheap and easy to say that the "X-rays 

 only act by suggestion," but no proof is brought for- 

 ward, whereas, the microscope definitely proves that 

 glandular tissue, when exposed to the rays, changes and 

 atrophies. 



Certainly no amount of suggestion exerted on the 

 patient, whose case is briefly outlined below, by those 

 in charge of him, would have cured his D.A.H. (dis- 

 ordered action of the heart) until the more radical 

 methods were resorted to. 



Case: B. L., private in the Royal Scots, age 23, 

 with 7 months' service, was wounded in the left buttock 

 and back at Hooge, Belgium, on Sept. 25, 1915. 



The bullets were removed at a Canadian hospital in 

 France, the wounds being badly septic. 



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