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 areas is mainly due to an excess of calcium and to accept, without reserve, the modern view that such goitre is really due to iodine deficiency. So great an influence have the results of laboratory animal experiments, chemical analyses, and deficiency theories obtained with the medical profession that the value of the great experiments of nature in the superendemic areas of goitre are in danger of being overlooked. Such laboratory work is of greatvalue and has provided a new angle of vision to the problem of goitre. Moreover field investigations in some instances appear to