CLINICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS IN A PATIENT WITH AN IDIOPATHIC DECREASE IN THE THYROXINE-BINDING GLOBULIN OF PLASMA*

Abstract

regularly during that period, but had had none during the year prior to entry. The patient had been known to have a heart murmur since childhood. Symptoms of acute rheumatic fever were denied. The patient's only other complaint was weakness of the arms and legs of 2 year's duration. This was especially prominent in the distal musculature and was of moderate, but not incapacitating, severity.