David Cowie proposed the U.S. adopt salt iodization to eliminate simple goiter

In 1922, David Cowie, chair of the Pediatrics Department at the University of Michigan, proposed at a Michigan State Medical Society thyroid symposium that the U.S. adopt salt iodization to eliminate simple goiter.

His work with the Society over the next few years, through the development of the Iodized Salt Committee, was instrumental in the history of the U.S. iodine supplementation effort.

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