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Title: Dr. Evans' How to keep well;
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Evans, William Augustus, 1865- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Hygiene Sanitation
Publisher: New York, Pub. for Sears, Roebuck and co. by D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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em causes multiples. They referred to such unhygienic conditions of life as defective air space, bad food, bad living rooms built on damp grounds. McCarrison has written a book on the cause of goiter in which he tells the result of years of study. The conclusion which he arrived at is that water is largely responsible for goiter. The water responsible is not water containing certain mineral ingredients as was thought formerly. It is polluted water, water that has soaked through soil contaminated by human beings. This means that where the goiter rate of a community is high there is danger of much typhoid. Another secondary factor generally recognized is fright or any other form of mental strain. Prolonged mental strain such as worry and overwork at monotonous, grinding, mental labor may be a cause. Answering the question in the last paragraph of your letter, Dr. Bobo has been exposed in Nostrums and Quackery. He is connected with the Peebles epilepsy cure and in close touch with a circle of fakers.
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Fig. 197.—Thyroid Gland; External Carotid Artery (to the head and neck) and Some of Its Branches. Cc, common carotid; Ce, external carotid; Ci, internal carotid; TSU, superior thyroid; LS, superior laryngeal and crico-thyroid; HY, hyoid branch of the lingual; S, the sublin-gual; ME, the facial; SMT, the submental; LDI, the infer-ior labial; LDS, coronary of upper lip; SN, the a. of theseptum narium; A, the angular; OC, the occipital; AP, theposterior auricular; TPS, the superficial temporal; 1, thetongue; 2, the genioglossus muscle; 3, the hypoglossus; 4,the angle of the lower jaw; 5, the hyoid bone; 6, the thyro-hyoid ligament; 7, the thyroid cartilage; 8, the cricothy-roid membrane; 9, thyroid gland. THYROID MALADIES 571 Thyroid Gland.—W. P. F. writes: 1. Where is the thyroid gland?2. What are its functions? 3. What are ones symptoms when it is de-ranged? If. What should he done? Reply.—1. On the front part of the neck just above the collar line. 2 and 3. It secretes a juice t

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