It is the purpose of this paper to report the results of treatment with irradiated ergosterol of a number of patients suffering from postoperative parathyroid tetany. The literature on the experimental investigation of the relation of vitamin D in some form to the function of the parathyroids has been reviewed extensively by others [Moritz (1), Bloch and Faber (2), Grant and Gates (3), Higgins and Sheard (4), Hess and Lewis (5), Hess, Weinstock and Rivkin (6), Jones (7), Jones, Rapoport and Hodes (8), Brougher (9), Wade (10), Greenwald and Gross (11), Bauer, Marble and Claflin (12), Gleieh and Goodman (13), Stern (14), Jaques (15), Findley (16), Hansmann (17), Pappenheimer (18), Shelling (19), Spies, Wilson and Strinkham (20), Taylor, Weld, Branion and Kay (21), Sjöstroin (22), Laurens (23), Thomson and Collip (24) and others]. It is, therefore, not necessary at present to enter into any further extensive discussion of the literature.
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Lindon Seed (1933) studied this question.