Paediatric Aspects of Cerebral Palsy

raised titres for both haemagglutinating and complement- fixing techniques.In addition they found raised protein- bound iodine as well as butanol extractable iodine (B.E.I.) levels to be characteristic, though not pathognomonic.The authors consider that it is quite possible that damage to the thyroid gland, perhaps a virus infection, may initiate escape of thyroid antigens from the gland, so allowing an auto-immune process to become established.They consider the diagnosis to be of considerable importance in that, on the one hand, the condition is not unlikely to go on to complete destruction of the gland, and on the other, that treatment with dried thyroid extract for at least two years is an effective therapeutic regime.This review is undoubtedly authoritative and its conclusions sound.Its reading is made unnecessarily difficult by a rather oblique style of writing, by tables that are difficult to understand because of inadequate caption- ing, and by occasional unnecessary mistakes.On page