Word: mccarrison
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...this by feeding Akron school children iodine twice a year from 1916 to 1919 and practically eliminating goiter from that bedeviled community. Most specialists work on the assumption that, for deficiency of iodine, the starved thyroid must work extra hard and grow bigger. On the other hand. Colonel Robert McCarrison from evidence he gathered in the Punjab is certain that germs in drinking water indirectly cause goiter. Iodine in drink or food, he believes, kills such germs in the intestines...
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