Mclaren D. C.

RANDOM JOTTINGS

There is not one here but has noted the production of tubercles in the lugs following the suppression of nasal or laryngeal catarrh; the treatment drives it down out of reach as well as the patient. Intelligent persons are learning that it is dangerous to suppress haemorrhoids, scrofulous glandular swellings, etc., etc. They are finding out the same things as regards catarrhs and, in fact, all local manifestations.

IODINE AND THYROID ACTIVITY

The remedy to prevent the development of goitre in the adolescent period is therefore to feed the children of that age small quantities of iodine three or four times a year during that period. Now so much has been written about this feeding of iodine, that many adults who already have or have not enlarged thyroids, have begun to take iodine in different forms.