H2 ENDOCRINE THERAPEUTICS 



It is rather humiliating to find that the practical 

 science of endocrinology, from the therapeutic 

 side, is not nearly so advanced in this country 

 as in America. The nation that produced Sir 

 Edward Schafer, George Oliver, and others, 

 ought not to have lagged behind. This may be 

 largely due to our absorption for many years in 

 medical subjects pertaining to the Great War. 

 This lack of the newer knowledge was very 

 evident in the recent discussion on Graves' 

 disease at the Royal Society of Medicine. Hardly 

 an allusion was made to the endocrine treat- 

 ment of that condition (a typical endocrine 

 disease), which in many hands has been so 

 successful, both at home and abroad. 



Surgery, which has been happily, and in this 

 case justly, called the opprobrium of medicine, 

 was in the lordly ascendant. 



The ideal of endocrine treatment is essentially 

 conservative. It is not the destruction or removal 

 of disease, but the restoration of the normal 

 balance of power and of function to the organs 

 that rule our life. 



