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EDMUND PRINCE FOWLER, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1931;13(1):77-83.

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In view of the fact that all physiologic and pathologic variations in bone are intimately connected with calcium metabolism, and that otosclerosis is a variation in bony growth, it would seem logical at first thought to search for the blood calcium and phosphorus variations in this disease. This has been done, many observers reporting a diminution in blood calcium (Poos,¹ Leicher,^1a Kopetzky and Altman,² etc.), and only one denying this contention (Lindermann³), There are a few uncertain reports on phosphorus. Before I discuss my own observations, it might be well to summarize briefly the latest concepts in the calcium-phosphorus problem. In doing this I borrow freely from Wells,⁴ Aub's Harvey Lecture, 1929,⁵ and Dr. Peters' address before the New York Academy of Medicine, Section on Orthopedics,⁶ all of whom give clear and fairly comprehensive versions of the subject.

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Submitted for publication, June 13, 1930.

Read before the American Otological Society, Swampscott, Mass., May 20. 1930.

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