University of Manitoba - Brown and Gold Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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.PHARMACY. Earl Has: noi? XVxnnlpcg Kenneth XV. Ball XVmnipcg Edmund A. Hood . A Rowlslc. Man. ':-,se g :.,5f,,..I'-A-1 135352. -- V ww, A e , . George lx. Rezd ::J,.e:.-. f .. N . 'aff' U 53 XV1nn1pcg gf . . 3, - -'. , V ' ' 'Q Curlmg Representative G. Lyall McMorran Sourls. Man. Vicr-Prcsndcnr and U.M.S.U. Rcprcscntalnvc Duncan M. Sample Rapid Cnty. Man. Hockcy Reprusentatnvc Frank Price Baldur. Mm. Norman Tadman XVmnipeg Spencer G. Prismall Lnrmnn. Man. Duncan W. G. Wz'llz'amson McGregor, Man. Social Representative 4 Page One Hundred and Sixty-eighc

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.PHARMACY. Violet M. Dodds Winnipeg Gordon R. QFlashj Cochrane Brandon. Man. Mary I. CTootsj Sinclair The Pas, Man. Max C. Cohen Winnipeg Secretary-Treasurer and Brown and Gold Representative Max Bay Dauphin, Man. Walter R. Conner Morden. Man. Valedicrorian Frank YV. B. Brathwaite North Bay, Ont. Alum W. Curnrnzn Manitou. Man. Leon Camznetsky Winnipeg Pres1dent John E. Edwards Reston Mau. Page One Hundred and Sixty-seven

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AN EPOCH-MAKING PHARMACEUTICAL DISCOVERY ROUBLE had come to the small throat of Li Foo's young wife. Her slender ringers seemed per- petually touching the lump to feel whether it were growing. Sad little smiles were all that was left of her gay laughter. ls there no help, Li Foo? she asked. Li Foo talked with the priests of the temple. who gave him the magic of the sea sponge. On the beach in the early morning he found a sponge cast up from the sea. He burned it and saved the ashes. These he dissolved in wine and gave to his wife to drink, little by little. And little by little the lump in her throat receded. Laughter returned to her eyes. Mighty the magic of the sea sponge. While the above is a legend, it is based on knowledge that the Chinese possessed 4000 years ago. Li Foo never knew that the growth in his wife's throat was a goitre. He never knew that the magic of the sea sponge was its iodine content-that most all sea organisms are rich in iodine. Neither I J XX E I I l I It X vp! -yi' ' .f Th fi 3 is H Sf e 1 ... Cry ,. x ' - W . ol Q . .-X g f Iodine 'W' did the Greeks who stumbled upon the same cure as early at 200 AD. Not until 1812 did a then obscure French pharmacist, named Couttois. discover Iodine as a separate substance. He saw it first as a violet vapor rising from a pile of seaweed that he was burning to make saltpeter. lt was named Iodine Q violet-like j by Sir Humphrey Davy. Today it is realized that deficiency of iodine in food is the commonest cause of goitre and other diseases- though some have too much of the element. Less than a thousandth of a grain per day supplies our needs. Used as a local application it is per- haps the nearest approach to the ideal germicide. killing invading germs with the least damage to living tissue. Pharmacists the world over have made many valuable contributions to medical science. In the Colleges of Pharmacy and in numerous laborator- ies, presided over by pharmacists. re- search work is still being carried on patiently and quietly. Page One Hundred and Sixty-nine