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Show ' / ; ITHE THE WAR ON DISEASE.Y DISEASE i DISEASEi " " .Y Y . 1 . ' , . - C CThe . has made wonderful wonderfuI ad- ad adances advances ad advances - The art of the physician , vances ances in th the the past few years 'ears ears ' , . along two 'Pnnclpal Pnnclpal principal 'Pnnclpalhnes principallines ' 'principallines principallines ' hnes lines Medical research is learning learmng more e\ e every eery \ ery day dayabout dayabout dayabout about the causes of diseases , and clinical cUnicaI experimen e'tpenmen- e'tpenmen etpenmen experunen- experunen experunentation e'tpenmentaUon experimentation ' - men menare menare menare them Medical MedicaI tation taUon more about how to cure but butare butare butare alleviate aIIeviate symptoms , are not content to merely concerned with removing theca thecause the thecause are more and more ca cause use of UlnessTake illnessTake illness Ulness illnessTake the cause of the common commondisease commondisease commondisease Take , for example e'Xample ' , disease which is called epter goiter lter , the outv outward . ard Symptom symptomof which ruC)1 ruC1 ) on the neck nech Science has Iong long Iongknown longknown longknown of \ which is a S\\ S swelling Sel1mg \ el1mg known that this is a diseise dise\se dise se ' \ of the thyroid throld : , gland glandand , has been believed beheved that itas It \\as as was waschiefly \ waschiefly aschiefly it and foi fOl some : , iears years ears chiefly due to a deficiency of iodine in the system systemBut systemBut systemBut of ofSurgeons ofSurgeons ofSurgeons College Col1ege the International But the president of Surgeons reported to its convention the other day daythe , the discovery that the real cause of goiter is a fungus funguswluch funguswhich funguswhich affects the water watersupply watersupply watersupply wluch which grows on cabbages , and often supply of regions in which goiter is prevalent prevaIent It presents pre- pre preents pre prevents - \ vents \ents ents sents the iodine in the body from functionirg funcbomrg ; to keep keepthe keepthe keepthe the thyroid in order . That is only one of the latest Iatest dlscovenes discoveries discoverieswhich discoverieswhich which \ hich modern science has made in the search searchfor searchfor searchfor for means of preserving preservmg and curing cunng disease How far farmedIcine farmedicine farmedicine medIcine has already gone along this line 1fne is indIcated indIcatedby indicatedby indicatedby by the decreasing decreasmg death rate and the greater age to tohich towhich towhich \\hich hich which \ the average American lives compared WIth WIthonly withonly withjinly only a quarter of a century ago |