Editorial
Authors: K T Weber
Journal: Cardiovascular Research (1998)

Their hiking along the winding trial in the Black Hills of within a year's time these bright-eyed 19-year-olds had South Dakota took the Conrads to a clearing where they emigrated to America to pursue their dreams in the ''land could grasp the splendor of Mount Rushmore.''Isn't it an of plenty.''The young Basedows settled in Summit amazing piece of artistry?''remarked Theodore to Thad-County, central Ohio, where they purchased a modest deus and Alexandra.''The faces of four American Presi-parcel of land and began farming.dents, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore They were hard-working and in constant motion from Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, carved into this granite sunrise to sunset.They lived off what their farm produced, cliff.''preserving smoked ham and beef for the winter months.''This National Memorial is as tall as a five storeyThe land was tilled and seeds readied for sowing in the building,'' noted Elizabeth.''It reflects the strong, natu-spring of 1927 when Iod and Imma took ill.Fit and trim ralistic style of American sculptor Gutzon Borglum.Born without known prior illness, they began to lose weight, a in 1867 of Danish parents who had settled in Idaho, he total of 20 lbs in 2 months.A loss of strength made usual studied art in Paris at the Academie Julian, where he was chores difficult to complete.Quite distressing was the influenced by the style of sculptor Auguste Rodin.Bor-restlessness that interfered with much-needed sleep.Even glum and his coworkers began working on this project in though family planning was a distant thought, Imma's 1927.He died in 1941 before it was completed.His son, recent oligomenorrhea was puzzlesome, and her nervous-Lincoln, finished the work.''ness at times seemed to border on delirium.''Let's rest here a moment,'' requested a somewhat A trip to the doctor became necessary.Dr. McClure breathless Theodore.After he caught his breath, he went examined Iod and Imma, but could not elicit specific on to say, ''Many believe South Dakota is a land of infinite physical findings.Because several other patients had variety.It features contrasting landscapes and 22 million presented with similar symptoms in recent months, he acres of pasture land.Livestock and livestock products suggested the Basedow's malady was perhaps related to a provide farmers with most of their income, and this state is program recently introduced in this part of the country by a major producer of beef cattle.It is interesting how local health officials.''It's designed to prevent goiter, or farmers in this state take advantage of the land in raising thyroid enlargement,'' he noted, ''and it involves adding a cattle.Calves and yearlings from the western section are chemical to table salt and sea salt used as preservative to sent to the eastern section to ranchers called feeders.Here prevent thyroid underactivity.This program has proven the young cattle are fattened on grains grown in the quite successful in school children.''section's rich soil prior to their shipment to market.The The Basedows, who had become Christian Scientists people of South Dakota have had much to endure over the after moving to the States, were quite displeased with this years.They are a rugged breed.Remarkable contrasts in meddling in their health by public officials.They decided the weather have challenged their tenacity and resolve.to relocate.Iod heard that farmers in South Dakota had Perhaps I might share such a story with you.It takes place enjoyed prosperity since 1920, with good rainfall yielding about the time Borglum began his work on Mount Rus-fine crops.He felt a certain kinship with this state, with its hmore.''rich gold mining at a Homestake named Iode (or deposit).Iod and Imma were each born at the turn of the 20thIt was in the summer of 1927 that they sold their Ohio century and raised on neighboring farms high in the Swiss farm and moved westward to South Dakota to resume their Alps.They were married on Saturday, June 20, 1925, and farming.They settled in Wakonda, an agricultural settle