. The thyroid gland in health and disease. appearance of recentgoitres is to be regarded as strong, though not con-clusive, evidence that the habitat in man of the livingexcitant of goitre is the intestinal tract. [2.] Lacticacid bacillus administered daily to recent cases of goitremay cause the complete disappearance of the swelling(figs. 30, 31). [15]. (4) The restitution of the normal drainage of the bowel in persons suffering from chronic constipation and intestinalstasis associated with goitre, as by the operations ofshort-circuiting or colectomy, causes the disappearanceor marked reducti
. The thyroid gland in health and disease. appearance of recentgoitres is to be regarded as strong, though not con-clusive, evidence that the habitat in man of the livingexcitant of goitre is the intestinal tract. [2.] Lacticacid bacillus administered daily to recent cases of goitremay cause the complete disappearance of the swelling(figs. 30, 31). [15]. (4) The restitution of the normal drainage of the bowel in persons suffering from chronic constipation and intestinalstasis associated with goitre, as by the operations ofshort-circuiting or colectomy, causes the disappearanceor marked reduction in the size of the goitre (Lane).Intestinal toxaemia is thus shown to be the cause ofthe thyroid swelling. (5) Fish confined in tanks situated one above the other on a single water-supply show an increasing proportion ofthyroid hyperplasias and of visible goitres from thehighest to the lowest tanks in the series (see page 41).Furthermore, the addition of pure water to the tanks,or of iodine, mercuric chloride, or of arsenic, retards or. Fig. 28.—Before treatment, 42 cm.
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