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The word “goiter” (or goitre in Europe) derives from the Latin gutter, but the meaning has shifted from “throat” or “neck” to mean specifically an enlarged thyroid gland. An ancient Greek synonym was bronchocele, a term actually used to describe any enlargement in the neck, although it meant literally a swelling or an outpouching of ...
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There have been references to goiter in historical Chinese texts as far back as 2700 BC. The high prevalence of the condition, with relatively little knowledge of its pathogenesis and of preventative techniques, led to its early recognition. Burnt sponges and seaweeds were used to treat the condition as far back as 1600 BC. In 85 AD, a Chinese phys...
Aetius mentioned the use of surgery to treat goiter in the 6th century, believing that it was a hernia of the larynx. In fact, the term “goiter” is likely to have originated from the Latin term guttur, meaning larynx of the bronchus. In the 7th century, Paulus Aegineta categorized goiter as either steatomatous or hyperplastic. In the 8th century it...
In 1656, a famous anatomist named Thomas Wharton discovered the exact anatomical structure of the endocrine glands, including the thyroid gland, and explained that these glands were responsible for secreting substances into the body for certain functions. Throughout the 18th century, many people noticed that the supply of blood to the thyroid was e...
Robert Graves and Carl von Basedow are known for their accurate description of goiters and other abnormalities of the thyroid gland. This was the origin of the Merseburg Triad of exophthalmos, goiter and palpitations, described by von Basedow, in 1840. In 1909, Emil Theodor Kocher won a Nobel Prize for his work in thyroidology, including his innova...
The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period.
This interactive political map by World History Encyclopedia offers a large-scale overview of the ancient world across all time periods. Choose a date and see what the world looked like. It focuses on the Mediterranean, but also covers other parts of the world.
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