PREFACE 



The considerable impetus that has been given to the study of the internal 

 secretion in the last two decades quite justifies the experiment of publishing 

 the diseases of the ductless glands connectedly. The experimental physiol- 

 ogy and pathology has been dealt with in exhaustive fashion in the excellent 

 work of A . Biedl. 



The present volume is concerned with the clinical aspects of the diseases 

 of the ductless glands. Of the results of experimental pathology I have set 

 forth only as much as seemed to me necessary for the explanation of the clin- 

 ical manifestations. For the rest of these results the reader is referred to 

 the work of Biedl. 



In most of the chapters I have tried to describe the clinical symptomatol- 

 ogy on the basis of my own observations, such as I had occasion to make, 

 for the most part, at the first medical clinic in Vienna. 



Prof. Dr. L. von Frankl-Hockwart and Privat-Docent Dr. R. Stern I thank 

 cordially for the revision of the neurological part, Prof. Dr. Stoerck for the 

 revision of the pathologico-anatomical part, and the latter also for numerous 

 microscopical preparations. The X-ray examinations, when not especially 

 credited, were by Dr. G. Schwarz, director of the Roentgen division of the 

 first medical clinic. I thank Assistant Dr. S. Bernheim for aid in the work- 

 ing-through of numerous experimental questions. Finally I am indebted to 

 my publishers, the firm of Julius Springer, for their assistance in the fitting- 

 out of the book. N 



W. FALTA. 



VIENNA. 



