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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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