This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...are to some extent local. This view is corroborated by the fact that even in regions where goitre is endemic there are occasionally regular epidemics of the disease, in which e.g. the inmates of garrisons or of institutions simultaneously suffer from rapidly growing thyroid tumours. This endemic and epidemic mode of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...are to some extent local. This view is corroborated by the fact that even in regions where goitre is endemic there are occasionally regular epidemics of the disease, in which e.g. the inmates of garrisons or of institutions simultaneously suffer from rapidly growing thyroid tumours. This endemic and epidemic mode of occurrence has been accounted for in the most various ways: the air, the soil, the water, the social conditions, all have at one time or another been accused. None of these theories however have met with general acceptance. The most probable explanation seems to be that the local exciting cause of goitre is of a miasmatic nature, independent of the altitude and of the temperature of the region, but developing only over certain kinds of rock or soil. Bircher, one of the latest writers on the subject, concludes from his minute researches on the distribution of goitre in Switzerland, where the disease is in many parts endemic, that it occurs only on marine deposits of palaeozoic, triassic, or tertiary age; while eruptive volcanic rocks, the older crystalline formations, jurassic and calcareous deposits, and freshwater deposits generally, are exempt. The exact nature of the miasma, and its mode of entrance into the body, are as yet unknown. Klebs and Bircher suspect the existence of some specific micro-organism, though they have not succeeded in obtaining any experimental basis for the supposition. It will very probably be found that the exciting agent enters the body in drinking-water. We are also unaware of the manner in which the exciting agent works, but it is not unlikely that it sets up hyperaemic conditions in the thyroid. As infants are sometimes born goitrous, we must assume that it may pass from mother to foetus and influence the latter wi...
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8vo, hardcover, no dj, yellow-brown cloth. Good condition for its age. Exterior soiled w/ 1/4" chip across upper spine cloth, board edges lightly rubbed; ex-hospital stamp on title pg. & light foxing to endpapers, otherwise contents clean, binding & hinges quite tight. 365 pp.
