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Goiter

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Iodine deficiency diseases
Thyroid gland - Diseases

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Images about Goiter

15 images from works
  • The head of a man with large goitres on his neck. Etching by Jusepe de Ribera.
  • The head of a man with goitre. Etching by Jusepe de Ribera, 1622.
  • Three wild born people, all with goitre. Engraving, 1787.
  • Woman, front view, probably with elephantiasis of the neck (or goitre?), Abyssinia. Photograph, 1904.
  • By permission of the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor : to the nobility, gentry, and the curious for inspecting most extraordinary human beings, of the wild species born ... three wonderful phoenomena ... each with a monstrous CRAW under the throat ...
  • A man with goitre. Chalk drawing by J. de Ribera.
  • Two women with goitres, with a man and a child, in Naini Tal, Uttar Pradesh. Photograph.
  • The head of a man with large goitres on his neck. Etching by Jusepe de Ribera.
  • A man with goitre. Chalk drawing by J. de Ribera.
  • A man with goitre: front (left) and profile (right) views. Etching by J.R. Schellenberg, 1778.
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Works from the collections

144 works

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    The thyroid gland / editors: Rosalind Pitt-Rivers [and] W.R. Trotter.

    | Date: 1964
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    Pathogénie et anatomie pathologique des goitres et des cancers thyroidiens / par Louis Dor.

    Dor, L. (Louis), 1866- | Date: 1903
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    The present status of the surgery of systematic goitre : illustrative cases / William Seaman Bainbridge, A.M., Sc.D., M.D.

    Bainbridge, William Seaman, 1870-1947 | Date: [1914?]
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    Essai sur le goître : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, le 2 juillet 1836 / par J. Jourde.

    Jourde, J. | Date: 1836
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    Ueber einseitigen Exophthalmus bei Morbus Basedowii : inaugural-Dissertation welche zur Erlangung der Doctorwürde / der Verfasser Wilhelm Barella.

    Barella, Wilhelm. | Date: 1890
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Related topics

Thyroid Diseases
Graves Disease
Ophthalmology
Ophthalmology
Graves' disease
Graves Ophthalmopathy
Graves Ophthalmopathy
Thyroid Gland
Congenital Hypothyroidism
Hypothyroidism

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