“…Since 16 months of age, however, he had been suffering from cutaneous and pulmonary moniliasis. As mycotic infection is a frequent finding in idiopathic hypoparathyroidism and sometimes even precedes other clinical [3] or even blood chemical [9] manifestations of the disease by many years it was suspected that he represented a "latent" or "partial" form of hypoparathyroidism. It was therefore of interest to know if an increased tubular reabsorption of phosphate could be demonstrated a t a time when the serum calcium and phosphate levels were still normal.…”