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commenting on these statements, Baron Thenard observed that M.
Chatain, in the course of his able researches on iodine, had analysed
the waters of those Alpine valleys most subject to goitre, and found
that mineral almost entirely wanting. And it has been proved that
sea-salt, containing a minute quantity of ioduret of potassium, acted
as a preservative from goitre on all the inhabitants of a district who
made use of it. The air, too, has been examined as well as the water,
and, so far as yet ascertained, the proportion of iodine in the
atmosphere is variable, and much greater in amount in some regions
than in others. The activity prevailing in this particular branch of
inquiry is the more encouraging, as the maladies which it aims at
removing are of so peculiarly distressing a nature; and the
investigation is one likely to lead also to valuable incidental
results.
Next, M. Abeille, chief physician to the hospital at Ajaccio, has an
interesting communication--On the employment of electricity to
counteract the accidents arising from too long inhalation of ether or
chloroform.
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