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David Murray Cowie
(1872 - 27 Jan 1940)
American pediatrician who
promoted the iodization of table salt sold in the U.S. to provide a
dietary supplement of iodine, thus reducing the incidence of goiter.
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“If you care
to be a master or to make a true success of your profession, the
smallest detail of your work must be done with thoroughness. To be
thorough in medicine means that in the ever alluring present, we do not
forget the past.”
— David Murray Cowie
Opening address to the Medical
Department of the University of Michigan, Sep 1914.
Quoted by Howard Markel in "When it Rains it Pours" : Endemic Goiter, Iodized Salt, and David Murray Cowie, M.D.
American Journal of Public Health, Feb 1987, vol.77, No.2, page 227.
Quoted by Howard Markel in "When it Rains it Pours" : Endemic Goiter, Iodized Salt, and David Murray Cowie, M.D.
American Journal of Public Health, Feb 1987, vol.77, No.2, page 227.
“...it
would be a simple way of solving the goiter problem. And in addition to
that it would be the biggest thing in a medical proposition to be
carried out in the state of Michigan, and Michigan is a large place.
And as I thought of the thing the more convinced I became that this
oughtn't to be a personal thing, This ought to be something done by the
Michigan State Medical Society as a body.”
— David Murray Cowie
Opening address to the Medical
Department of the University of Michigan, Sep 1914.
Quoted by Howard Markel in "When it Rains it Pours" : Endemic Goiter, Iodized Salt, and David Murray Cowie, M.D.
American Journal of Public Health, Feb 1987, vol.77, No.2, page 222.
Quoted by Howard Markel in "When it Rains it Pours" : Endemic Goiter, Iodized Salt, and David Murray Cowie, M.D.
American Journal of Public Health, Feb 1987, vol.77, No.2, page 222.
