Pathogenesis of Simple Goitre

Distribution of Simple Goitre in Derbyshire

Before the Royal Society of Medicine in the section of Epidemiology and State Medicine, on 28th April, 1933, Dr. P. H. J. Turton presented the results of his many years' work on the distribution of simple goitre in Derbyshire, which is of profound interest to those in contact with endemic goitre, 'and especially to those who have hesitated to discard the old view that endemic goitre in certain ...

The Treatment of Simple Goitre with Sodium Iodide Intravenously

ous to make a trial of this treatment, as in most of the outlying dispensaries in Upper Assam a large number of goitre cases are met with and the medical officers have to satisfy the patients with a little red ointment (Ung. hydrarg iodi rubra) which has very little effect in curing the disease. The red ointment reduces the size of the goitre in certain recent cases only. While I was in charge ...

Fœtal Malpresentation in a Case of Simple Goitre

The aetiology, prevention and treatment of simple goitre.

Introduction Simple goitre has afflicted mankind since the earliest times. It was known to the Chinese about 1500 B.C., to the ancient Greeks and to the Romans. Humbolt, in I824, observed it among the natives of the Andes and Livingstone among those of Central Africa. Two thousand years ago sea salt was known to be beneficial and burnt sea sponge was a remedy in use from the times of the ancien...

Ocular hypertension associated with simple goitre observed in young individuals.

AMONG the various theories on the pathogenesis of chronic simple glaucoma, is the suggestion that cerebral disturbances of obscure origin, especially in the diencephalon, play an important part in the occurrence of glaucoma. Magitot (1950), especially, accepts that the primary cause of the factors resulting in glaucoma lies in the upper centres, and that a disturbance in the regulation of these...