Pituitary Basophilism and Hypertension *

The etiology of hypertension is still a moot subject among all thoughtful clinical observers. The views of such workers as Bright, Gull and Sutton, Allbutt, Mahomed, von Basch, and Volhard and Fahr mark the beginnings of a rational appreciation of the underlying basis of those hypertensial states grouped together as vasculo-renal disease, but a satisfactory explanation of the fundamental phenomena involved is still lacking, and a fresh approach to them is still welcome.