That a minimum amount of iodine in the food is necessary to health is shown by the existence of goitre regions.
It was then suggested that the doctor might send those of his patients who were suffering from thyroidism to the “Mark White Goitre Institute.
About 1912 the name of the concern seems to have been changed, for we have in our files a letter addressed to a layman on the stationery of the “Mark White Goitre Treatment Company.
A case of belief in consumption with goitrewas lately cured in the West.
The village stands in a marsh, which is formed at the entrance of the river Reuss into the lake, and in consequence the people are subject to goitre and cretinism, those terrible diseases so peculiar to this country.
Some are glad to have a poor cretin or a case of goitre in the family, that they may have an additional plea to put in for charity.
He did not hesitate to treat goitre surgically, though he considered there were certain internal remedies that would benefit it.
The internal use of sea sponge, in which of course there is a noteworthy proportion of iodine, was recommended for relief from the symptoms of goitreby reducing its size.
Massage of the goitre was also recommended, and this mode of treatment was commonly employed for a number of ailments.
Goitre is very prevalent among them; in some villages Major Couchman believes that as many as 25 per cent.
Goitre occurs widely in Annam, Siam, Upper Burma, the Shan States, and in Western China as far as the frontier of Thibet.
Two important factors in the demand for them are the large preponderance in the number of males at the capital, and the prevalence there of goitre or thick neck, a deformity which is absent from the district of Chaotong.
In the Mayo Clinic the operative mortality in seventy cases of exophthalmic goitre with auricular fibrillation was only 2.
In intraventricular block the risk of operation is worth taking, according to the opinion at the Mayo Clinic, where there is exophthalmic goitreor tonsillitis.
The size of the goitre was in proportion to the length of the residence.
Goitre was reported as practically unknown among the white settlers living about the reservations where goitre was prevalent among the Indians.
Goitre among Indians cannot be traced to high altitudes, climate or water containing excess of calcium magnesium salts.
The fact, however, that the Indians and the insane exhibit a tendency togoitre indicates that behind the influence of the soil or of diet lies a neuropathic constitution, whether this be inherited or acquired.
Fletcher, of Indianapolis, has observed similar frequency as to goitre among the insane there, especially among the foreigners and their immediate descendants.
Accompanying the goitre a remarkable change is observed in the eyes, which attract attention by their prominence, and by the startled expression thus given to the countenance.
Alibert recorded cases of goitre where the tumour hung down over the breast, or reached as low as the middle of the thigh.
In goitre the swelling is conspicuous and is not only unsightly but may occasion much discomfort from its pressure upon the windpipe and other important parts of the neck.
It occasionally happens that in undoubted cases of the disease one or other of the three above-named phenomena is absent, generally either the goitre or the exophthalmos.
Goitre usually appears in early life, often from the eighth to the twelfth year; its growth is at first slow, but after several years of comparative quiescence a sudden increase is apt to occur.
But in localities not far removed from those in which goitre prevails, and where the water is of the same chemical composition, the disease may be entirely unknown.
There seems little doubt that goitre arises from drinking water rendered hard by the presence of magnesian and lime salts.
Goitre is very common in the city [of Yarkund], and in the country round, but it is unknown in Kashgar.
There is a breed of the Blenheim spaniel, in which this periodical goitre is very remarkable; the slightest cold is accompanied by enlargement of the thyroid gland, but the swelling altogether disappears in the course of a fortnight.
Some friends, of whom I particularly inquired, assured me, that it is not to any great extent prevalent in those parts of Derbyshire where goitre is oftenest seen in the human being.
Wherever endemic goitre is present, endemic cretinism is present also, and it has been constantly observed that when a new family moves into a goitrous district, goitre appears in the first generation, cretinism in the second.
It is pretty clear that in these observations, goitre and cretinism are confounded.
It is more than probable that these ill-favoured creatures belong to a particular race; for we must take care not to confound goitre with cretinism, sincegoitre is common where cretinism is prevalent.
The berries also are said to be deleterious, but, when applied externally, are considered as a cure for the swelling of the throat, which resembles the goitre of the Swiss, and is very common among the mountaineers.
From the neck of a girl of twenty who had a crushed, flattened head like a toad's, there hung so large a goitre that it fell even to her waist like the bib of an apron.
This, whether in the form of carcinoma or sarcoma, usually develops in a gland that has been the seat of goitre for several years, although it may begin in a previously healthy gland.
The term toxic goitre or hyperthyreoidism, suggested by C.
It is only in the earliest stages that a malignant goitre can be successfully removed.
If the water supply of a goitrous valley be changed to a healthy spring, goitre and cretinism disappear.
These terms are applied to a variety of goitre in which the symptoms due to absorption of thyreoid secretion--thyreotoxicosis--predominate.
The suspicion of a goitre becoming malignant is also a reason for removing it by operation.
In some cases the patient can, by a violent expiratory effort, such as coughing, project the goitre upwards into the neck.
The skin over the goitre is freely movable, and the tumour itself can be moved transversely, carrying the larynx and trachea with it, but it cannot be moved vertically.
A large goitre in a feeble patient, however, is better left alone, as it is difficult to remove all the intricate roots of the tumor, and if any portion is left it is prone to return.
The co-existence of goitre and functional spasm of the neck suggested to Pauly[204] that pressure on the recurrent laryngeal nerve might occasion a reflex spasm via the muscular branch of the spinal accessory.
She is entirely well of Goitre and throat trouble.
Gentlemen--I am willing and pleased to have you publish anything I have written in regard to the cure of my little son of Goitre (that a surgeon of N.
My wife has taken your "Golden Medical Discovery" for goitre (thick neck).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goitre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
