Endemic Goitre or Thyreocele; Being the Thesis for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of Durham for Which the Gold Medal of the Year 1884 Was Awarded Together with Subsequently-Added Footnotes and Appendix (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...influence. No new theory offered.--In conclusion, I have no new theory to offer, as our knowledge of the disease is as yet too imperfect. DISTRIBUTION OF GOITRE GEOLOGICAL.AND GEOGRAPHICAL). Geological distribution in France.--The geological distribution of goitre has been most completely ascertained in France by Dr. St. Lager, a summary of whose results Professor Lebour has translated and tabulated (in his paper already referred to) thus: --The Goitriferous And Non-goitriferous Rocks Of France. Goitre is Endemic on: Goitre is Not Endemic on: Recent Alluvial deposits. Glacial Drift deposits Pliocene Pliocene deposits generally. The fahluns of Touraine, Miocene The lacustrine limestone. The pyritous and gypseous mottled clays The metalliferous arkose of Au-vergne. Molasse with pyritous lignites of Savoy and Dauphine Gironde. &c. The Beauce limestone. The Fontainebleau sand-stone. The upper Nagelfluh. Goitre is Endemic on: Eocene Cretaceous Jurassic Triassic Permian Carboni-Ferous Devonian Silurian i Cambrian Eruptive Goitre is Not Endemic on The gypseous marls of Paris. The 'calcaire grossier' of the Paris basin. The Brie limestone. Sands and clays with pyritous lignites of the Paris basin. The Nummulitic pyritous limestones and black shales of the S 'Uth of France. Clays with pyritous lignites of Provence and Languedoc. The chalk, with flints and iron pyrites of Northern France. The chalk marl. The upper greensand, with iron pyrites. The gault, with pyritous clays. The pyritous marls of the lower greensand. The Kimmeridgian (rarely) with pyrites. The lower Oxfotdian, with pyrites ( = Kellovian). The inferior oolite (only at the outcrop of the well-known bed of pyritous ironstone). Liassic, bituminous, and pyritous nrnls, lignites, ...