goitres

Another very plausible idea is, that they are the descendants of unfortunate individuals afflicted with goitres, which is, even to this day, not an uncommon disorder in the gorges and valleys of the Pyrenees.

An Accursed Race Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

Other benefits of optimal iodine nutrition include prevention of iodine-deficiency disorders such as goitres, hypothyroidism, reproductive failure, cretinism and childhood mortality. "

ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

Fewer than one in 20 nodular goitres are cancerous but an ultrasound scan and/or biopsy may be performed.

How to spot an illness just by looking at someone 2011

When I lived in India among the Tibetans large goitres were common.

Snake oil comes in all kinds of bottles | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

Erkrankungen der Schilddrüse (Diseases of the thyroid gland) discussed the etiology, symptology and treatment of goitres.

Theodor Kocher - Biography 1967

Like an island, it was possessed of curious survivals - rare orchids and Roman snails; and there were chemical qualities in the limestone-springs which gave the women pre-Raphaelite goitres.

Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

A surgeon also, whom I met at the baths of Louesch, informed me that he had _frequently_ extracted from different goitres

A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium Richard Boyle Bernard

General Pfiffer has informed me, that there is but one spring at Lucerne, which is free from tuf, and that those who reside in its vicinity, are much less subject to the goitres than the rest of the inhabitants.

A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium Richard Boyle Bernard

[432-12] Among the _strange shapes_ that danced about the banquet were deformed men from whose throats the flesh hung down in huge pockets, like goitres, and others whose heads grew from their breasts without neck and shoulders.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

The country of the Valais is remarkable for the vast numbers of persons it contains, affected with the _goitres_ and also of

A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium Richard Boyle Bernard