SPREAD OF GOITRE.
MOST COMMON IN DOMINION
MELBOURNE, Sept. 13. Speakers at the medical and surgical sections of the 8.A1.A. Congress to-day expressed tire opinion that goitre is most common in New Zealand. Sir Thomas Dunhill, the world s most eminent authority on the thyroid gland, said that the disease ’was increasing all over the world. Its primary cause was still unknown. Some patients could not be made safe for surgery. The sooner the word cure was dropped in this disease the better. The discussion that followed revealed that the hustle and bustle of modern life was a stimulus to the spread of the disease.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 246, 14 September 1935, Page 7
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105SPREAD OF GOITRE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 246, 14 September 1935, Page 7
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