Endemic goiter is such a conspicuous disease, so definitely limited to certain geographic areas, and human beings are so much more comfortable when they have an "explanation" for a phenomenon (even a wrong one) than when they have none that it is not surprising that there have been so many hypotheses to account for this condition. St. Lager in 1867 (R-7) collected 40 causes of goiter, of which 4 had to do with the diet. Coindet, the man who first showed that iodine could cure goiter, himself believed that one of the reasons for the high incidence of this disease in women was the fact that they carried heavy loads upon their heads.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.109616 |
| Date | January 1954 |
| Creators | Axelrad, Arthur. A. |
| Contributors | Leblond, C. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy. (Department of Biology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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