Prof. W. Winternitz. Graves' disease and its physico-dietetic treatment. Morbus Basedovii und seine physikalisch-diätetische Behandlung. — Monatscher. f. d. physic. - diat. Heilmeth. I. Heft. 1910

Abstract

The famous hydrotherapist does not share the generally accepted view on the pathogenesis of Graves' disease, as always depending on the disease of the thyroid gland. In most cases, he thinks, the whole symptom complex of the disease, like changes in the gland, is a secondary phenomenon, depending on the disease of various organs. Where it is impossible to play a leading role, the process should be considered as hyperthyreoidism, not hypothyreoidism.

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