12 MAYO EXPLAINS I0DINE'S POWER IN GOITRE CURE . s------ Noted Surgeon, In Beaumont | [1 body is tk Lecture, Tells of Thyroid Qland and Goitre. ------ That iodine is responsible for the #aving of thousands of lives ann and that it is capable of effecting ap- parently miraculous cures in the cases of 'persons afflicted with toxic goitre were the contentions made recently by Dr. Charles H. Mayo, of Rochester, | Mian, who delivered the first of three "Beaumont Lectures" before members | of the Wayne County Medical 8 ety. 2 Dr. Mayo's subject was "The His- torical Aspects of the Thyroid Gland; Its Development, Function and Dis. ease" The "Beaumont Lectures" =X dren who had grown ) during the first year ¢ and thereafter half an nch a th. "We may see from related circum- [ stances "" he said "that nature intended | the tl id gland to be the gx2at en- | ergy d of the body. I think #t may well be likened to the draft, if stove. The draft re- gulates the burning of the carbon in the stove and the thyroid governs our lic rate. In the unborn child, |: 1yriod should be in place by the h week. We know that it is y related to the sex organs, es- y in women. At times when | these organs, there is a marked swell- |ing of the neck. "Nature has cbnsidered the gland of | sufficient importance to provide for it | an unusually large blood supply. In fact, the thyroid could take care of the | entire supply of the body with the ex- | ception of the amount feeding the { brain. "We can see from the cretins that life is not worth living without an effi- | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG arr, were inaugurated four. years ago by | ciently functioning thyroid gland. Re- the Wayne County Medical Society ag TIOVe the thyroid and Jou Tose he a memorial to Dr. William Beaumont, | 472{t © the Stove. Ihe aunject e who, when post surgeon at Fort Mac. | Periences chilly sensations and is men+ kinac, 'published in 1833 his epoch- . making work on gastric juices and the physiology of digestion. Dr. Mayo touched briefly on the life of Beaumont and remarked that although medical history indicated eight of his predecessors had been gi- wen the same rare opportunity for pur- swing the same line of investigation, none had been qualified to take advan- tage of this. History of Gland. Briefly, then, Dr. Mayo proceeded $0 give the history of . the thyroid gland and to indicate its functions in 'health, contrasting this with its condi- ? in disease and pointing out by means of slides the various types of itre. Sixty-five per cent of the solu. discharged by the healthy thyroid to the blood stream consisted of iod- ine, he said, the average person con- suming three-quarters of a milligram | of iodine daily. When the gland found | difficulty in obtaining its 'supply, it proceeded to multiply its cells as ugh reaching out after the sub- stance and the condition known as goitre followed, he explained "Nn The Cretins. Dr. Mayo spoke of the cretins, gen- * erally born with a deficient thyroid, which manifested itself in a sort of mental torpor, in deafness and dumb- fiess often, and in failure to increase stature at the normal rate. Thyroxin, or thyrdid extract, if fed to these chil- dren, he said, was found to have an al- most immediate effect. He displayed on. {tally dull, asking the same question | over and over again. It is the typical picture of old age when the thyroid is not functioning properly. But restore the glandular secretion and you open | the draft; the stove burns properly [*™ | again." On Old Men. Dr. Mayo stated that the Greeks, the Romans and the Phoenicians had practised glandular therapy, but gen. erally on old men. Iodine, he said, was not discovered until 1801, although Paracelsus, as early as 1600, was pre- scribing for goitre a substance rich in iodine. Absolute Preventive. "Iodine is almost an absolute pre- ventive of colloid goitre," he aid. "That has been proved beyond all question. In those countries like Switzerland, the Indian Punjab and | our own western and Great Lake reg- ion, where the water is deficient in iod- ine, goitre abounds. There is little of it, for example, in the states border- ing the Atlantic coast and where great quantities of sea food are consumed. How we manage to extract the jodine from food, no one knows, but it should form an admirable line for investiga- tion. "We are only just beginning to ga- ther together bits of knowledge con- cerning our ductless glands, but al- ready the fact that iodiae has a pro- found influence on the thyroid has been of inestimable value. Previously, old cases of goitre, coming to Rochester for treatment, would die before they oe INSURES JEWELS FOR KING'S RANSOM. Mlle. Regine Flory, one of the most beautiful of the French Slage stars, has insured her jewels for 2,000,000 francs. In the oto she is wearing her tiara, in itself worth more than the insurance as it is encrusted with diamonds and other pre- s stones. "AN CITIZENS OF KINGSTON can assist the lo. cal Board of Health at this season of the year by thoroughly cleaning all yards, cellars, etc. a Disease in any tommunity is usually in direct relation to absence of cleanliness, sunlight and fresh ' reached the clinic *for operation. Now that can be checked. "Give even a dying patient ten drops of iodine solution three times a day for ten days, and at the end of that time he will be on his feet. In the last year, the death rate was only .68 per cent. from this cause. The iodine also en- ables the surgeon to do a complete operation at once when before he had to do three or four 'test' operations first and thus greatly weakened the patient's resistance. Iodine or thyroxin, in many cases of goitre, is a curative. |. Given in table salt it is a preventive for goitre. Precisely how it is split up when passing through 'the digestive tract on its way to the thyroid gland, from which it emerges into the blood stream as a hormone, we do not know. Its demonstrated usefulness, however, must content us for the present." Large bird, native of Florida, was found in railway yards at St. Thomas. gr, Margaret Ross, daughter of the late Hugh and Mrs. Ross, Meyers- burg, near Campbellford, and wife of*Dr. G. I. McKelway, a prominent y8ician of Washington, D. C., dled in a Toronto hospital Monday. William Hilsdan, an old time re- sident of Perth, died at Ottawa on 'Monday, in his eighty-second year. while an a visit to friénds. Mr. LeMaite has been appointed caretaker of the Harvey Warner park in Napanee. FRIDAY, MAY 8, 102%. LACK OF IODINE SOURCE OF ILLS Long-Knows Salt Wins Delay- ed Recognition by Medicine MUCH USED IN THE WAR Salt Contained in Many Foods In Natural State. -- London.--There is new hope for the ordinary man, who is the victim of the ordinary aches and pains and ailments of everyday life. This hope comes through a substance, one of the essen. tial salts, which has been known to medical science for many generations. It is iodine. It is known, as indeed it might have been known many years ago, that a lack of iodine in the circulation of the blood, from which it is extracted by the thyroid gland, is the cause of countless aliments: It is responsible for a condition, which shows itself in its most acute form in goitre or Derby. shire neck, which affects the health in minor but distressing degrees of thou-§ sands of people, who never realize that they are suffering from a form of iod- ine starvation. Used in War. ken in many forms. The ost familiar treatment Iodine is: general and with iodine, however, is found in its]. external use as a germicide. The war made millions of men its grateful ad- herents. For it was in common use as a first antiseptic dressing for wounds, while the simple prescription of a No. 9 pill and iodine saved medical officers a vast amount of trouble and restored unnumbered sufferers from strange and divers diseases to the rude state of health, which was known as Al. The commonest way of absorbing the necessary iodine into the system is by eating common salt, of which it is a constituent, and through the vegeta ables and fruits in which it is cantaine ed. Nature indeed has always recoge nized the necessity for iodine, But we, who thrive on nature's bounty, have undone a large part of her good work by éooking and peeling our vegetables and fruit, and by refining the iodine out of our salt. The famous march of progress, of which the steps are so halting and slow, has new driven medi- cal science into some recognition of the * value of this essential salt. A stage has now been reached in which the doctors may be expected to make a habit of prescribing iodine much more frequently. Many Children Have Goitre, Sault Investigation Shows Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.--The medical survey which is being made in schools of the Sault by the members of the Sault Ste. Marie Medical Association is revealingsmore goitre among the children than had been expected, though it has been considered for some time that the Sault was in a sec- tion where goitre was prevalent. No figures as to the number of cases discovered are available, as the survey has not been completed, and the re- ports have not been turned in, but it is understood that the proportion is quite large. Capt. John Bertrand, Watertown, N.Y., has sold his properties on Webb and Hugan streets, Clayton, N.Y., to Mrs. Lina Burgess. The sale amounted to about $4,000. Rev. Donald Mclnnes, has been called to Knox Port Dover. . Milwaukee girl confesses to pass ing twenty-two forged cheques op stores. Foxboro; church, ---------- mm mn) Windsor Iodized Salt plays an important part in the health of growing children Goiteris but the visible sign the ugly danger signal, of a lack of iodine in the thyroid gland -- Mental development, physical growth, the skin, the hair, general health affected. LL the iodine in the world is contained in the ocean in béds of salt, deep under- ground, left there millions of years ago when oceans rolled where now it is dry land. Ages ago iodine may have been one of the chemicals of rocks or the soil absorbed from the ancient oceans, but there is no iodine in the soil today. Iodine is one of the most soluble salts in nature, consequently if it ever existed in the soil it would be quickly dissolved and carried down to the sea, it none available at any of the usual sources from which our bodies derive the salts and other chemicals necessary to health and normal development, viz., in water, vegetables and other foods. Thirty years ago it was learned that iodine was a necessity to the proper functioning of the thyroid gland and when the gland was deprived of its iodine, goiter in some form resulted. An- other result of insufficient iodine was the wast- ing of the thyroid gland. Generally speaking, goiter was considered more disfiguring than dangerous. In the major- ity of cases it really is not a serious trouble, though some forms, exophthalmic or "pop-eyed" goiter, for instance, are extremely dangerous and fatal in 20 per cent of the cases within two years, Goiter--the common variety--so frequently seen in both sexes, is really a symptom or evidence that the body has not been properl supplied with iodine through the thyroid glan with results to the general health likely to be much more serious the goiter itsel}. But the great prevalence of goiter also led to the discovery of the almost universal prevalence of other troubles due to the lack of iodine. As goiter became better understood its causes were sought. Surveys showed that it was least fre- quent near the sea and most frequent inland. Further study revealed that to roperly func. tion, the thyroid d must have iodine to work with--iodine in i Then as children approach puberty, goiter or lack of iodine seriously retards the development of the generative organs in both sexes, especial- ly in girls, in whom the change is made more rapidly than in boys. Such ghtls are likely to bear goitrous children when they themselves become mothers, Goitrous expectant mothers may bear goit- rous children, which in many cases are cretins or imbecile dwarfs, while in the large percent- age of cases the children will be defective in one ! form or another. + Defective action or wasting of the thyroid gland due to insufficient iodine, in women approaching or past the e of life, causes depression, dry, unhealthy pasty com- plexion, falling hair and nervousness. Deficient iodine also adversely affects the nutriment of the body. Fats are not properly consumed as heat and are redeposited under the" skin, causing obesity or even fatty degeneration. We have now told you what the lack of iodine in the thyroid gland means. What the presence of iodine means is equally interesting and shows how important iodine is to every human being. Dr. Barwise, who made a study of this subject in Derbyshire, Eng! where for centuries goiter has been notoriously prevalent, has listed the functions of iodine through the thyroid gland as follows :-- 1. It is necessary for effective metabolism, and ially promotes tory and Specially respira changes 2. It promotes efficient mental devslopmyet. A Severs shortage before birth results cre- 5 It is especially required in the pregnant con- dition and antenatal clinics must bear point in mind. It is needed at the age of adolescence for reproductiv cularly in the male, in whom the ver takes pla more rapidly than in the male. Jt 3b huedsd soiheep the skin and its sppend. Y ' So it will be seen that while goiter is very common, it is not the only result of lack of iodine in the system. It is also plain that for the maintenance of good health iodine is an absolute necessity. Wind or Jop! S AL There are many ways of taking iodine into the system and all are very good. The first method is nature's--always good. Down by the sea in the Mari- tinte Provinces of Canada and States goiter is almost unknown. Iodine gets into the water by sea spray blown miles inland, It gets into the vegetables from the soil. In many dis- cts marsh hay, soaked in sea water while growing, fed to the cattle and | 5d finds its way in 0 the hii ora hen the people b a great deal o clams, oysters, cral obsters, all of which contain A og absorbed rom the sea water. It might be mentioned here that 1 wheat, especially from near the sea, contains a little e, but the iodine is in the indigestible husks of the wheat, 49 that even if it were eaten as mixture of flour, iodine would not be absorbed into the system, the bran merely Acting to stimulate bowel action, without be But we cannot all live near the sea, 50 we must get our iodine by some other method. Switzerland, one might almost say, has been the very home of goiter bios attendant evils caused by insufficient i. e. This is because it is far inland because the water supply is almost ed from glaciers or snow. However, i the simple, effective The surest, simp of fodine In phyroid gland is by using Wisdeer © ioor g nto the It is necessary to put iodine into the salt and for this purpose the Canadian Salt Company at Windsor, Ontario, worked out the first successful formula in Canada for iodising salt. Since this discovery and its it approval the Provincial Board of Health, Windsor Todised Salt is in universal use. Windsor Jqtined, Salt prevents goiter and is i d that 90 to 95 per cent of goiter cases can be cured e of Windsor Iodized Salt. While it tesimal quantity. falling ey Snditien, [A dry wer do of »