GOITRE IN TROUT.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19148, 3 November 1927, Page 8

GOITRE IN TROUT.

' RESULTS 0F R^^^^R'

' At a meeting of tb,e Institute of Canterbury e ing in the Biological terbury College, the were read by members :-" w to Produce Goitre in Trout' Emanaf ion," by Dr. R, R, tyWJllil and M* M. N. Rogers; "MrttfMfil Zealand Starfish," by Mr & VftfiSSll nett, M.Sc. , 'tlllPti It was stated in the first research work on the 00 goitre* in trout carried ouro*"M|s« C. Farr and Mr M. N. SpftKßmKi Canterbury College, that the chief cause of th *A*BSS|j|£ was excess of radium rived from the sub-snrface the Christchurch district. Yssß&m ity of this had been *« s Wftj l Milligau, who found &M'WJW6m tion of fish to excess *™n&wm 1 tion did not produce goitre. experiments with rabbits were unsuccessful, though D * fl , I R 5r ant result was that, m giving emanation, WflW tion 1)6 so made that it 2>s"&ffle thyroid gland (the part tigglm goitre) before it reaches .WMEffils otherwise it is thrown off "!*ffl%g. In the subsequent •i&pe, Curator of the Society's Gardens, said'it found that a handful of «*"|| to the water every day **«WSsj!m prevent and cure aration was of considerable- jTf^B ""Mr Bennett exhibited ■ ■*ss§* starfish. He discussed and general cially to the number and their method of dividing _» A« spontaneously. ' Jaßi