74 THE DISEASES OF THE THYROID GLAND 



the initial stage, especially on sudden overdissemination of thyroid glandular 

 secretion, there may well be chiefly an abnormal distribution of the neutro- 



FIG. 9. Diffuse enlargement of the thyroid gland in Basedow's disease. 



philes in the vascular tree, leading to the above-mentioned leucocytic for- 

 mula ; for after feeding with thyroid substance to dogs we found in the cap- 

 illary blood of the livers of these dogs hyperleucocytosis with marked pre- 



