TY - THES N2 - Preventative medicine now includes within its domains fields which were unheard of only a few years ago. Goiter is probably the most widespread and spectacular of the preventable diseases, so is causing much interest, especially among public health workers. The prevention of goiter means more than preserving the normal outline of the neck, but means the prevention of cretinism, iodicy and mutism. Aa adenomas and malignancies of the thyroid, aa well as Graves disease or toxic goiter usually begin as simple endemic goiter, it means also preventative surgery. Nor should the high mortality of infants with congenital goiter be forgotten. DO - 10.6083/bpxhc43521 DO - doi AB - Preventative medicine now includes within its domains fields which were unheard of only a few years ago. Goiter is probably the most widespread and spectacular of the preventable diseases, so is causing much interest, especially among public health workers. The prevention of goiter means more than preserving the normal outline of the neck, but means the prevention of cretinism, iodicy and mutism. Aa adenomas and malignancies of the thyroid, aa well as Graves disease or toxic goiter usually begin as simple endemic goiter, it means also preventative surgery. Nor should the high mortality of infants with congenital goiter be forgotten. AD - University of Oregon T1 - Goiter prevention in the United States DA - 1925 AU - Sangster, Mildred M. L1 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/43521/files/Sangster.Mildred.pdf PB - University of Oregon LA - eng PY - 1925 ID - 43521 L4 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/43521/files/Sangster.Mildred.pdf KW - Preventive Medicine KW - Public Health KW - Goiter TI - Goiter prevention in the United States Y1 - 1925 L2 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/43521/files/Sangster.Mildred.pdf LK - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/43521/files/Sangster.Mildred.pdf UR - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/43521/files/Sangster.Mildred.pdf ER -