The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-05-18

be able to talk and is certain to be
very dull mentally, if not an idiot:
During adolescence the thyroid
gland also plays an important part
in normal growth and development.
The thyroid gland is equally inn
portant before childbirth, for it
controls the normal rate of growth
and development of the embryo.
Lack of thyroid secretion in the
mother causes the budding thyroid
of the embryo to attempt to func-
ton for itself. This produces
goiter of the type most often found
in men and boys.
Golfers develop during Adde'S
cence and before childbirth, be,
cause there is an unusual demand
for thyroid action at these PERIODS.
This condition results from the
effect of building up and tearing
down of the body tissues so as TO
bring about a normal development
of the body.
Early Greeks Used Iodine.
Goiter prevention was known TO
the early Greeks who unknowingiy
employed iodin in its treatment Tor
thew used the ash of burnt sea
sponges, ignorant of the facs tnat
II had a rich iodin content. 1t was
first used by Coidet in Geneva, Swit-
zerland about 1920, and in France
about 1910.
The first actual method for goiter
prevention in a large scale was
| worked out by DR.. Marine and Ut
Kimball in the public schools OF AK
| ron. It was so arranged that q
| careful examination of the thyroid
of each girl from the fifth to the
twelfth grade was made and record
ed once a year. In the first exam
nation more than half OF THESE
girls were found to have enlarged
thyroids.
The method of prevention was
the taking of three grains of sodium
iodin in the drinking water daily
for two weeks, each spring and fall
No girl was asked to take this doss
without written permit from hel
parent. Of the ten thousand girls
who were examined, over half asked
to be given this preventive treat
ment.
Il Among the girls taking the pro
i phylactic dose of iodin, not a single
girl developed a. goiter. Among
the girls not taking iodin as a pre-
ventive, a fourth of these withou
goiter in the beginning developed
it, and in many of these, the goiter
became quite large.
The golfers disappeared in owe
sixty per cent of the girls who hat
golfers at first and took the lodil
salt, while the enlargement dis
appeared in very few of those VIII
had goiter at first and did not TAX
iodin.
From this experience, We know
that if a girls thyroid is kept satu
rated with iodin during adolescence
goiter will not develop. A SINAI
|. fraction of grain of iodin at week
, ly intervals is sufficient to assur
, the full normal iodin content o
!, the gland. This method of goite
! prevention is absolutely safe.
> easily applied and has been prove
! practical.
Il There is no possibility of harr
= from this dosage of iodin. In a
= the work done at Akron, as we'll a
in Switzerland not single case Q
exophthalmic goiter has been pre-
duced. There is no other possibl
= after result.
So we find that if every woma
! would use iodin before child-birt
she would not develop goiter, nc
: would there be any tendency
: goiter formation in the thyroid G
= her child.
!. This would save two of the goite
= periods in the life of any indivie
ual. Then if every girl would b.
:; gin using iodin regularly from tn
ages of three or four. and partic'
6 larly during adolescence, nor
!, | would deyelop goiter