Medicine: Goiter

At the Congress of American Physicians & Surgeons in Washington last fortnight and at the American Association for the Study of Goiter in Memphis last week, staff men from the great medical clinics remarked dolefully about the falling off of business, especially goiter business. Not enough patients are going to the Mayos, the Criles, the Laheys to keep the plants running at efficient capacity. Doctors have had to be discharged, forced into envious private practice. Brothers William James and Charles Horace Mayo are easing the transition for their discharged men by giving...