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Show oo GOITRE CAUSED BY; IMPROPER NUTRITION! New York. N. Y., Jan 2. Goitre Is probably caused by improper nutri tion, according to an announcement made in the current number of the Journal of Medicine of Experimental Medicine, the official organ of the Rockefeller Institute for medical re search. The announcement is based on observations ob-servations made by Dr. Da i I .Murine of Western Reserve university in Cleveland. It had been observed that the disease had occurred in sections of Germany and Switzerland where liver made Into sausages in a promi nent article of diet. Dr, Marine, wno for several years has bec-u making a study of the disease with brook trout, demonstrated that fish fed on liver in hatcheries developed the disease and that a group which was ed with whole sea fish didn't contract it. Fish suffering from goitre recovered on a sea fish diet. "A comparison of liver as a food with fish as a food." writes Dr. Marine, Ma-rine, "seems to indicate that the liver lacked something needed by the de veloping fish which the diet ot fish contained It is probable that the liver contains some substances in excess, ex-cess, in attempting to utilize which the animal exhausts other elements necessary for nutrition which are not present In the liver in sufticient amounts As to the nature of this chemical fault, one cannot reasonably speculate." Goitre, he declares, Is an indication of nutritional disturbances, but he Is not at this time prepared to say that the malady In man is produced by the same causes that affect the fish lie has studied. Dr. Marine's observations are re garded as Important because the ex act cause of thp disease has been un known and because they at least suggest sug-gest means for the treatment of goitre goi-tre in human beings. nn L |