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London) may be especially recommended. A. Crotti fe the 

 author of the Thyroid and the Thymus (Lea and Febiger, 

 Philadelphia). Other books are H. J. Ochsner: Surgery 

 and Pathology of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands 

 (C. V. Mosby, St. Louis) ; and H. Eichardson: The Thy- 

 roid and Parathyroid Glands (P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 

 Philadelphia). 



Kendall's work on the "Isolation of the Iodine Com- 

 pound Which Occurs in the Thyroid" will be found in the 

 Journal of Biological Chemistry, volume 39, page 125, and 

 volume 40, page 265, 1919. His lecture before the Harvey 

 Society ("The Chemistry of the Thyroid Secretion," the 

 Harvey Lectures, 1919-1920, published by J. B. Lippincott 

 Co., Philadelphia) was a fine historical review of the entire 

 work. 



The subject of hyper-thyroidism has received consider- 

 able attention lately. In this connection the reader will 

 find in W. M. Boothby's article, "Adenoma of the Thyroid 

 with Hyper-thyroidism" (Endocrinology, volume 5, page 1, 

 1921), a very thorough discussion of the types of thyroid 

 disease, with references to the latest literature. H. R. 

 Harrower's booklet, Hyperthyroidism (Glendale, Califor- 

 nia), suffers from an over-enthusiastic treatment. The 

 favorable effects of surgical treatment coupled with 

 "physiologic rest" are advocated by C. W. Crile in "Surgery 

 Versus Roentgen Ray in the Treatment of Hyperthyroid- 

 ism" (Journal of the American Medical Association, vol- 

 ume 77, page 1324, 1921). 



With regard to the subject of metamorphosis, a very 

 exhaustive review, with references to the original literature, 

 is given by J. F. Fulton in his article, "The Controlling 



