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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.

A man with goitre: front (left) and profile (right) views. Etching by J.R. Schellenberg, 1778.

George Edward Shuttleworth holding a disabled male child on his lap. Photograph, 1895.

The head of a man with large goitres on his neck. Etching by Jusepe de Ribera.

A group of entertainers parading: the monstrous craws, a ventriloquist, a learned pig and two mesmerists. Etching, 178.

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

The present status of the surgery of systematic goitre : illustrative cases / William Seaman Bainbridge, A.M., Sc.D., M.D.

Essai sur le goître : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, le 2 juillet 1836 / par J. Jourde.

Ueber einseitigen Exophthalmus bei Morbus Basedowii : inaugural-Dissertation welche zur Erlangung der Doctorwürde / der Verfasser Wilhelm Barella.

De la maladie de Basedow ou goitre exophthalmique : thèse pour le doctorat en médecine / par Léopold Caudesaigues.

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

The present status of the surgery of systematic goitre : illustrative cases / William Seaman Bainbridge, A.M., Sc.D., M.D.

Essai sur le goître : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, le 2 juillet 1836 / par J. Jourde.

Ueber einseitigen Exophthalmus bei Morbus Basedowii : inaugural-Dissertation welche zur Erlangung der Doctorwürde / der Verfasser Wilhelm Barella.

De la maladie de Basedow ou goitre exophthalmique : thèse pour le doctorat en médecine / par Léopold Caudesaigues.