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INDEX 



Tetany, differential diagnosis of, from 

 hydrophobia, 676. 



from hysterical attacks, major, 

 679. 



from hysterical contracture, 678. 



from hysterical convulsions, 679. 



from katatonia, 677. 



from meningitis, 676. 



tuberculous, 676. 



from muscular atrophy, progres- 

 sive, 681. 



from muscular dystrophies, 681. 

 -from myasthenia gravis, 682. 



from myoclonia, 678. 



from myotonic phenomena, 678. 



from neuritis, peripheral, 681. 



from occupation cramps, 678. 



from other conditions that may 

 be associated with sensory phenom- 

 ena resembling those of tetany, 682. 



that may simulate the motor 

 pareses sometimes seen in tetany, 

 681. 



where hyperkinetic phenomena 

 resembling those of tetany may occur, 

 676. 



from peripheral neuritis, 681. 



from poliomyelitis, 681. 



from progressive muscular atro- 

 phy, 681. 



from psychasthenic fits, 679. 



from Kaynaud's disease, 683. 

 -from spasm, of the diaphragm, 



677. 



facial, 677. 



from spasmophilia, 680. 



involvfcig local muscular do- 

 mains, 677. 



of the glottis, 677. 



from strychnine poisoning, 676. 



from tetanus, 676. 



from tetanus neonatorum, 676. 



from tonic spasms involving the 

 musculature as a whole, 676. 



endocrine glands in, chromaffin sys- 

 tem, 628. 



gonads, 629. 



hypophysis cerebri, 627. 



pancreas, 629. 



parathyroid, 024. 



thymus gland, 630. 



thyroid, 624. 



epidemic-endemic. See Tetany, idio- 

 pathic. 



Krb's phenomenon in, in diagnosis, 

 673. 



of idiopathic form, 647. 



Tetany, etiology and pathogenesis of, 

 645. 



after operations for goiter, 651. 

 in association with infectious dis- 

 eases, 649. 



with intoxications, 650. 



with menstruation, pregnancy 

 and lactation (maternity tetany), 

 650. 



idiopathic tetany, 645. 

 in children, 651. 



in experimental production of, by 

 forced respiration, 654. 



in pathological hyperpnceas, 659. 



poisonous substances in, 662. 



unitary conception of, 659. 



etiology of, diseases of the digestive 

 tract,-648. 



colonic dilatation, 649. 



gastric tetany, 648. 



helminthiasis (worm tetany), 

 649. 



stenosis of the duodenum, 

 649. 



historical notes on, 587. 



experimental production of, in hu- 

 man beings, by forced respiration, 

 654. 



formes frustes, diagnosis of, 675. 



forms of, in adults, 578. 



gastric, 648. 



hemorrhage into the parathyroids in, 

 568. 



historical notes on, 53. 



attempts at restoration of thyroid 

 function in post-operative tetany, 

 587. 



Austrian contributions to, 581, 

 582. 



- Benjamin and Erdheim, 585. 



British discovery of, Clarke and 

 Kellie (1815, 1816), 580. 



chronic tetany, produced experi- 

 mentally, 586. ' 



-Chvostek (1878), 582. 

 -Clarke and Kellie (1815, 1816), 

 580. 



-Dance (1831), 580, 581. 

 -Erb, of Heidelberg (1874), 581. 



etiology, 587. 



evolvement of knowledge of, 580. 



experimentally produced by forced 

 respiration, 587. 



experiments upon thyroidectomy 

 (with and without parathyroidec- 

 tomy), 584, 585. 



four great signs of, 582. 



