Iodine History

1819 marked the beginning of nutritional medicine, many years before vitamins or nutrients were discovered, when a Swiss physician, J. F. Coindet, found that large doses of the recently discovered element iodine, would cure “toxic goiter” or Grave’s disease.  The Chinese had been successfully using seaweed for this purpose for centuries, but this is the first time a specific element was applied to a specific disease to cure it, such as Grave’s Disease and other thyroid problems.  …