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In China it was an old internal remedy for leprosy and struma, and is accredited with stimulant, tonic, sedative, astringent and vulnerary properties.

Gouty diathesis, rheumatic diathesis, disorders of the digestive tract, general debility or lack of tone, an exhausted state of the nervous system, dentition and struma.

Surgery will relieve the compression of struma and benign neoplasms, and may be indicated in certain neoplasms of malignant origin.

The names goiter, struma, and bronchocele are applied indiscriminately to all tumors of the thyroid gland; there are, however, several distinct varieties among them that are true adenoma, which, therefore, deserves a place here.

The fact is that the England of that day seems to have been very full of that hereditary form of chronic ill-health which we call by the general name of struma.