The Thyroid and Manganese Treatment

Dr. Nott's papers, the first of which appeared in the British Medical Journal of 1925, attracted considerable attention. The author of these papers had a difficult task before him in that he advocated a simple line of treatment which had, in his hands, proved successful in an unexpectedly divergent variety of cases. The treatment consists of the combination of two therapeutic agents, thyroid and manganese, both of proved value in infective conditions, with or without the contributing benefit of a rectal washout. So far the matter is simple and it is not difficult to see that such treatment may be of real value in a number of cases, particularly in chronic infections with or without arthritis. The author, however, applied the treatment to a wide variety of cases and reported startling successes in the treatment of diseases as far