goitre

• “When the goitre extends behind the sternum -- the _malignant form of retro-sternal goitre_ -- the pressure symptoms are due to the encroachment upon the limited accommodation of the upper opening of the thorax; the trachea especially suffers, and the pressure on the veins causes distension of the anterior and external jugulars and their tributaries.”

  Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.

• “When the secreting elements increase out of proportion to the stroma, numerous rounded or irregular spaces filled with a thick yellow colloid material are formed in the substance of the goitre -- _colloid goitre_.”

  Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.

• “The term goitre is applied clinically to any non-inflammatory enlargement of the thyreoid gland.”

  Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.

• “For their sakes, therefore, I took the liberty to recommend what we call goitre pills, pretending (in order to enhance their value) that my sister had three goitres, each larger than the other, and yet at last, by means of these admirable pills, had got entirely rid of them!”

  The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• “Fatal cases or secondary illnesses have become more and more of a rarity in goitre operations.”

  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1909 - Presentation Speech

• “Some have even derived the word goitre from Got, or Goth; but their name,”

  An Accursed Race

• “At the age of 61, Bridges' rugged good looks have taken on a little more flesh, the folds under his chin - what he calls his 'goitre' - disguised by a salt-and-pepper beard.”

  Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

• “The thyroid body, situated in the neck and the enlargement of which is called goitre, secretes substances which pass into the blood, and which are necessary for the growth of the body in childhood, for the development of the mind and for the nutrition of the tissues of the skin.”

  The Evolution of Modern Medicine

• “A great many of the women of this district and of Lopere have the swelled thyroid gland called goitre or Derbyshire neck; men, too, appeared with it, and they in addition have hydrocele of large size.”

  The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death

• “It may be that a goitre is a beauty in the eyes of many a young Nepaulese swain.”

  A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home

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