Word: goiter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impression has spread through this country that goiter, particularly in children, is a frequent sequence of communicable disease. To check up on so general an impression was Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming's duty. He turned a squad of his Public Health Service to analyze the relation of goiter and communicable disease. They examined several thousand boys & girls before & after they had measles, chicken pox, and like illnesses; those who had never been sick; those who had normal and enlarged thyroids...
...communicable disease, he is no more prone to changes in thyroid size than a child who has not had a communicable disease. In so far as elementary school children are concerned, there appears to be no ground for assuming that the ordinary communicable diseases are responsible for simple goiter. The underlying causes of this malady must be sought for in other directions...
...Cumming made a special point of telling Congress about the fundamental research the Public Health Service is making in various diseases-cancer, tuberculosis, goiter, leprosy, trachoma, undulant fever, typhus fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, pneumonia, venereal diseases...
Died. Joseph Barondess, 60, famed Jewish philanthropist, pioneer fighter against "sweatshops," organizer of the potent Cloak Makers' Union, leader in the movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine; following an operation for goiter; in Manhattan...
...great men of surgery. They know that his method of blocking nerves to prevent the shock of operations (anoci-association) is as great a landmark in medicine as the first application of anesthetics, that he has improved the method of transfusing blood; that he is a world authority on goiter, that at his Cleveland Clinic they may get a physical examination of scholarly exactitude. Very few know that he and his associates have performed 2,670 experiments on animals, including man, and made countless observations while ever searching for some explanation of what life really is. They have decided that...