goiter stick (goiters tik)

The stem of certain coarse olivaceous seaweeds, as Sarga um, and a species belonging to the Laminarieæ, supposed to be useful as a remedy for goiter, and for this purpose chewed by inhabitants of South America, where the disease is prevalent. The curative element in these seaweeds is thought to be the iodine which they contain. The mucus of Fucus vesicu los us has similar medicinal properties. goitre, goitred. See goiter, goitered. goitrous (goi'trus), a. [F. goîtreux, The goitrous localities where there is no cretinism. Quarterly Rev., CXXVII. 196, 2. Affected with goiter. 2565 gets, are occasionally met with, and these are sometimes many pounds in weight. A specimen from the Ural preserved in the collection of the mining school at St. Petersburg weighs nearly a hundred pounds. The largest nugget of which there is any record was found in Australia, and was called the "Welcome." It weighed over 184 pounds, contained by a ay 99.2 per cent. of gold, and netted a value when melted of $46,625. Gold is a widely di eminated metal, but does not occur anywhere in large quantities, as compared with the ordinary useful metals. There is no proper ore of gold, this metal being never, so far as known, mineralized by sulphur or oxygen. Although gold is di eminated in fine and usually invisible particles through various ores of the other metals, and in many cases in quantity great enough to be separated with profit, most of the gold of the world is obtained either in the form of native gold, from washing the superficial detritus (sand and gravel), or by separating it from quartz, with which mineral it is almost invariably a ociated when occurring in veins or segregations in the solid rocks. Native gold is, however, in fact, an alloy of gold with silver, and traces of copper and iron are often a ociated with it. No native gold entirely free from silver has ever been found. The amount of the latter metal present in the gold varies greatly in different regions. The gold of California usually contains from 10 to 12 per cent. of silver; that of Australia rather le than half as much. The native gold of Mount Morgan, Queensland, approaches more nearly to chemical purity than any hitherto discovered, since it contains 99.7 per cent. of gold, and only a minute trace of silver. Pure gold is very rarely used in the arts. All gold coin and gold ornaments in use are alloys of gold with copper, or with copper and silver. The alloy is used, in the case of coin, because pure gold is too soft to bear rough usage; and for the same reason, as well as to diminish the cost, in the case case of gold us used for personal ornaments. The coin of England is composed of 11 parts of gold and 1 of copper; that of France and the United States Coxe. of 9 of gold and 1 of copper. The so-called gold used Let me not be understood as insinuating that the in. habitants in general are either goitrous or idiots.