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Jakob Eugster

Laureate 1935: Jakob Eugster

“[…] for his work ‘On the heredity of endemic goitres’ and on ‘New perspectives in the prevention of the endemic goitre and cretinism’. These works represented a major step forward in our knowledge of the causes of endemic goitres. The value of Dr Eugster’s research lies in the fact that he drew on very extensive material to demonstrate that location factors, which may be restricted to individual households and particularly their ground floors, play a key role in the development of goitres, and that heredity is irrelevant.”

Die Gutachter hielten E. s Arbeit für die wichtigste Schrift der vergangenen Jahre zum Thema Kropfentstehung. Durch die soliden statistischen Untersuchungen seien bisherige Vermutungen endlich auf eine gesicherte Basis gestellt worden. E. erstellte genealogische Register, untersuchte Hunderte von Zwillingspaaren und Tausende von Zu- und Abwanderern der endemischen Gebiete. Aus all diesen Beobachtungen konnte der Schluss gezogen werden, dass der endemische Kropf umweltbedingt, also nicht erblich ist. So habe E. mit der Hypothese von der Inzucht als verstärkendem Faktor für Kropfbildung aufräumen können.

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