Word: goiter
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...Congress of American Physicians & Surgeons in Washington last fortnight and at the American Association for the Study of Goiter in Memphis last week, staff men from the great medical clinics remarked dolefully about the falling off of business, especially goiter business. Not enough patients are going to the Mayos, the Criles, the Laheys to keep the plants running at efficient capacity. Doctors have had to be discharged, forced into envious private practice. Brothers William James and Charles Horace Mayo are easing the transition for their discharged men by giving each a home and a year's salary...
...Mayos, expert medical economists, do not agree with the run of the profession that Depression alone explains the lessened incidence of goiter. Like Dr. George Washington Crile in Cleveland and Dr. Frank Howard Lahey in Boston, the Mayos built a large portion of their clinic activities on goiter operations. Dr. Henry Stanley Flummer of the Mayo staff was the outgoing president of the American Association for the Study of Goiter last week. Dr. "Charlie" Mayo was on the program for a dissertation on thyroid deficiency, a commonly unrecognized disorder. Their interest in goiter has forced the Mayos to investigate...
...servings of Oysters a week will combat goiter (by supplying deficiencies of iodine in the diet) and provide significant amounts of vitamins A, B, C, D and G-reported by Bureau of Fisheries' E. J. Coulson, South Carolina Food Research Commission's Roe Eugene Remington...
Eyes Reset A frequent effect of goiter is protrusion of the eyes. Usually the eyes recede and cease staring upon the removal of the goiter. When this does not happen, it is because the muscles sur- rounding the eyeballs remain swollen to from three to eight times their normal size Dr. Howard Christian Naffziger of San Francisco relieved the pressure by enlargement of the passages through which the optic nerves and the arteries of the eyes reach the eyesocket from the interior of the skull. The popping eyes then reset themselves...
Wichita is an excellent place for goiter experiment. The region was archaically the bottom of a sea. Its soil contains much iodine. Goiter is consequently rare. In that propitious environment he fed animals with food low in both iodine and calcium. The animals did not develop goiter. Instead, their thyroids atrophied. Then to iodine-deprived animals he gave large quantities of calcium-containing foods. At once they developed goiter...