982 



INDEX 



Water, content of, in normal thyroid 



gland, 245. 

 Water supply, relation of, to cretinic 



degeneration, 451, 469. 

 Weight curve, importance of, in hypo- 



thyroidism, 429. 

 Wiesel, J., first description of chroma- 



phil system by (1904), 68. 

 Worm tetany, 649. 



Xanthin, and its derivatives, in tetany, 



634. 

 as toxic agent in intoxication theory 



of parathyroid tetany, 544. 

 X-ray, in treatment of dystrophia adi- 



posogenitalis, 922. 

 , in treatment of exophthalmic goiter, 



371. 



