Anoci. ******* ******** ******** ** not to venture too far
in serious cases. Since the adoption of this new method
(anoci-association) my operative results have been so vastly improved
that I now rarely regard any case of Graves' disease as inoperable,
at least to the extent of contraindicating a double ligation (Fig. 17).
[*] See footnote, page 4.@@@
[t] In later papers and in "Anoci-association" (Crile and Lower)
methods of combating postoperative hyperthyroidism are fully discussed.
If we believe that, in accordance with the law of phylogenetic association,
a continuous stimulation of both the brain and the thyroid gland,
accelerated by summation, plays a role in the establishment
of the pathologic interaction seen in Graves' disease, then it
is but the next step to assume that if the nerve connection between
the brain and the thyroid be severed, or if the lobe be excised
and the patient reinforced by a sojourn in a sanatorium or in some
environment free from former noci-associations, he may be restored
to normal health, provided that the brain-cells, the heart,
or other essential organs have not suffered irreparable damage.
There are still many missing links in the solution of this problem,
and the foregoing hypotheses are not offered as final, although from
the viewpoint of the surgeon many of the phenomena of this
disease are explicable.