GOITRE IN GIRLS

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 174, 20 April 1937, Page 4

GOITRE IN GIRLS

AN ALARMING SITUATION. The widespread incidence of Goitre In the young womanhood of this country is alarming thoughtful people. A well-known lady doctor recently declared that no less than 86 per cent, of the pupils in a South Island High School for girls suffered with Goitre, either incipient or developed. There is a simple explanation behind the fact that cases of Goitre have shown a marked increase of late. As one N.Z. doctor put it in a lecture to colleagues: “Goitre' has been showu with pretty great certainty to bo due to the removal of iodine from salt and from wheat.” Goitre, then, is admittedly due to the lack of iodine in the system. Fortunately this iodine can now be secured in assimilable form by means of the new treatment, Thyrodone. Thyrodone is a concentrated extract of Stewart Island oysters and retains the iodine and-other health minerals of the oyster in superior quality and potency to other recognised sources. When it is calculated that oysters give two hundred times more iodine than an equal weight of eggs, steak or milk, one can easily understand the many reports of successful goitre treatments through Thyrodone. Thyrodone is sold by Chemists at 4s Gd. If you have difficulty in obtaining write to Thyrodone Development, Ltd., P.O. Box 258, Invercargill.—Advt. |