TY  - JOUR
T1  - Clinical endocrinology: Vol. i. pineal hypothalamus, pituitary and gonads; vol. ii. thyroid
AU  - Halmi NS
Y1  - 1963/03/01
N1  - 10.1001/archinte.1963.03620270117023
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 391
EP  - 392
VL  - 111
IS  - 3
N2  - These are two of the four volumes in which Dr. Danowski, an outstanding clinician, experienced teacher, and versatile investigator, has sought to cover a field that less brave a man might have thought too wide for one person to encompass. The reviewer feels that the author has proved the timid appraisal's correctness: Indeed, it couldn't be done. Perhaps because the reviewer is not a clinician, he believes that more errors can be found in those parts of the book which deal with basic endocrinology. These are too numerous to be listed, and a sampling will suffice. Thyroxine is first formed and then attached to globulin in the thyroid follicles. I131-labeled thyroxine was located in the midbrain by Schittenhelm in 1932. In one of several Alice-in-Wonderland diagrams "inorganic I releases I2 in food, drink, etc." Propylthiouracil inhibits thyroidal iodide transport to some extent. "There is no extrathyroidal thyroxine formation on
SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1963.03620270117023
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1963.03620270117023
ER  -