Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-15
CURE FOR GO|TER
FOUND by DR.. mayo
NOTED SURGEON TELLS OF
TREATMENT FOR BATTLING
DISEASE.
BRINGS MESSAGE TO
IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY
Result Of Many Years Of Study and
Researches. Van Epps Says All
/Morons Are Result Of Heredity--
Ton Thousand Detectives in State
Institutions Of Iowa.

Des Moines, May 15.-Iowa physi-
clans and surgeons will come back
to Des Moines in May, 1921. to hold
their seventeenth annual convention.
it was decided ct the closing session
OF the Iowa State Medical Society at
Hotel Fort Des Moines yesterday.
Opening the scientific session yes
terday morning. |. President Donald
.Macrae. of Council Bluffs. delivered
an address on Surgery of the Chest;
Observations on the Wounded in
France" DIR. N[acrae was recently
discharged from the army after
serving more than two years. much
OF the time in active service in
France. He WIS followed by DR..
Francis r. HoHorook, of Des Moines,
who spoke on What the War Has
Taught Us in. the Treatment Of
Fractures" Both addresses brought
home wildly the superior skill with
which future generations will be
treated. and in which the present
generation MEASURABLE shares.
Ovation For Or. Mayo.
DR.. Charles Mayo. of Rochester,
Mimi. made All address on surgery,
The Thyroid and It's Diseaies." The
hall was filled to capacity
and the emmett surgeon was en-
Enthusiastically ilpplauded when an
nounced. He brought before the con-
vention the results Of many years
research and study Of particular
organ. Its functions. diseases and
tho proper treatment OF the disease.
Physicians will be able, as the re-
suit of DR.. Mayo's report, to carry
glad tidinSs to patients who are
afflicted with the disease commonly
known as goits,r, for successful treat
ment and permanent cures have been
effected.
Another paper which brought
about considerable discussion. wa,
that presented by DR.. Clarence r.
Van Epps. Of Iowa City. the title of
which was THE. Mentally Detective
Problem"
IN Iowa. with population of
about 2,000.00l." said DR.. Van Enp,
there are now about 10000 feeble
minded In the various instftution. In
tne state. Those who have not been
assigned to any institution, Or no
record made of,them, must equal at
least 10 per cent Of that number.
Result 81 HsrSdity.
Inc majority of mental defec-
yves. whom we classify az morons,
are the results Of inherited tenden-
cies, altho this statement is IRE
Quently contested in some ouarters
Our experience. however, has heen
.nat from IS to IS per cent have in
nerited theil. mental deficiencies
fney are problem which IL he
coming more menacing. every year,
because, on account of their Inability
% compete with the normal man or
IN the strugl;le for existence. they
lnstinctively turn to vice and crime.
VI the many criminals who have
undergone the Binet test, it has been
found thatstte majority are mentally
detective. frequently full grown
adult possessing the mentality ,of q
chlld OF OF years Of age.
aDr. Van Epps recommended that
the convention resolve itself into :
COMMITTEES of one to press the legis-
iature for. measures which wonId
enable theFs'iate or other adeuua1e
agencies TO lake the necessary stems
TO cope with the problem