Word: goiter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goiter Germ? Last week a modest man spoke diffidently before the Toledo, Ohio, Academy of Medicine. He was Dr. Andre Crotti of Columbus, Ohio, who cautiously explained that after twelve years' research, he had isolated a minute organism constantly found in non-toxic goiter. He had never seen anything like it before; no one had ever described it; injected into a dog it had caused goiter. Lacking experimental facilities, he suggested that others carry on his research; perhaps he had found a cause of goiter other than the well-known lack of iodine...
...Chicago colleagues, Dr. N. Lionel Blitzsten and Dr. William A. Brams, have been dealing with. That is, the severe abdominal pain which fluctuates with attacks of migraine (megrim, hemicrania). These men, by brilliant studies, have shown that a certain syndrome of abdominal pain, where syphilitic spoors and exopthalmic goiter do not intrude, shows the symptoms of atypical migraine. The relationship between the brain and the abdominal viscera, in this disease, remains obscure. Four cases out of ten were operated upon, and the doctors found, as they expected, that there was nothing to explain the pains. Cathartics would do no good...
...Goiter. Seaweed in the diet would prevent goiter, in some degree cure it. Half the young girls between the Atlantic Coast and the Rocky Mountains suffer from incipient goiter. Girls on the Pacific Coast are remarkably free from it So said Dr. J. W. Turrentine, U. S. Department of Agriculture...
Half the young girls between the Atlantic Coast and the Rocky Mountains. [Goiter...
...stag on a Pamir crag while goiter'd gazelles stand...