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 of Dakuakhana Dispensary in the Lakhiinpur District, a locality where the disease is endemic, I had the opportunity of carrying out this simple treatment successfully. In April, 1927, I selected six students who live in the Hostel of the Government M. V. School, Dakuakhana, under similar conditions, and a. daughter of a forester, who was also living very close to my dispensary. It is not very easy to get patients to take injections in a rural area like this, but, being the Medical Officer of the Hostel and having help from the Hostel Superin-