Show BELIEVE GOITRE I IS INFECTIOUS BLOOMINGTON X hll Ills reb Feb 2 2 The Tho theory that goitre I Is a ore ore- lIonal disease ha sheen e exploded Sn a Dr E ii I P Sloan r retiring 11 pies Ident blent piea-Ident piea of the American Association Cor or the Study of Goitre Summarizing the lie results of reo re research search o of the tho lie past pat year as us brought out at the tho ho second annual conven convention lion tion of the lie association which cbS clon cloned ed here bere Sal Saturday urda Dr Sloan quoted ed the tho opinion of Dr Dram Bram of Philadelphia it who ho ho said paid that seems to be lie no more In a belt Lell than docs does the Atlantic coa coast l lr r regIon glon the disease being quite IlS as pre there Other OIlier outstanding conclusions I from the conference o a as u by Dr Stoan ate aio as fol- fol fol follows oh- oh lows lowe ne no form only o goitre the tho I endemic Is 11 duo to a deficiency of I iodine Other forms A soon seem not to tobe tobe tobe be Indiscriminate use of Iodine as asa asa asa a treatment I Is condemned In om some caste it has been found actually 1 Within a ear ear the belief beller of a afew 0 fea specialists has hns grown growls to be almost unanimous that goitre is Ie duo due to Infections Research seems to show that heredity has no more to do goitre than It has with tuberculosis and other diseases saId to be bo h he hll hereditary |