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ENDOCRINE GLANDS 



PARKINSON'S disease was considered by Lundborg in 

 1904 as a chronic syndrome of parathyroid insufficiency. 

 Parathyroid organo therapy when it has been tried has 

 however given very contradictory results and, further- 

 more, the anatomical study of these glands in Parkinson's 

 disease has never shown constant lesions. J. Gauthier 

 who has recently taken up this disease, as regards to its 

 relation to endocrines, believes it to be due to a thyroid- 

 parathyroid insufficiency. All these facts are hypothetical 

 and very questionable. 



III. SUDDEN DEATH IN CHILDREN AND LESIONS 

 OF THE PARATHYROIDS. 



The part played by the parathyroids in the pathogenesis 

 of sudden death in children is still to be determined. We 

 have, however, a few cases which help us to interpret it. 

 One of these was reported by Triboulet, Ribadeau-Dumas 

 and Harvier and occurred in a congenital syphilitic, one 

 month old infant. Autopsy showed a variety of lesions 

 of the blood organs : adrenals, pituitary, thyroid and 

 parathyroids. The latter showed severe hemorrhages and 

 contained trepenoma. Grosser and Berke found on post 

 mortem examination of three infants, who died very 

 suddenly, hemorrhages localized to all the parathyroids. 

 It is, therefore, important in all autopsies of children 

 dying very suddenly to examine parathyroid glands, as 

 well as the other endocrines. 



