Goitrous

An ancient woman with a gloriously goitrous neck did the robot over to Pretty and shouted, “Go on, girl.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

That this connection of the goiter and at least one set of symptoms was no coincidence was clearly demonstrated in 1883, when several Swiss surgeons completely removed goitrous thyroids from 46 patients. ❋ Asimov, Isaac (1963)

Confusingly enough, goitrous individuals were apt to have either of two op-posing sets of symptoms. ❋ Asimov, Isaac (1963)

After suggesting an analogy between the disease and the redness and turgidity of the neck produced by passion or in singing, he adds that some cases are due to an accumulation of spongy tissue between the veins and arteries, or to the use of flatulent food, and he even tells us that some old women know how to produce and remove goitrous swellings by means of certain suitable herbs known to them. ❋ Henry Ebenezer Handerson (N/A)

I have found an abundance of tuf, and also of goitrous persons in ❋ Richard Boyle Bernard (N/A)

Over to the left I saw an unhappy little urchin, hardly a rag covering his shivering, bleeding body, grovelling piteously in the snow, while his blind and goitrous mother did her best at gathering firewood with a hatchet. ❋ Edwin John Dingle (1926)

Some Szech'wan coolies and myself had rice together on a low form away from the smoke, and the while listened to some tales of old, told by some half-witted, goitrous monster who seemed sadly out at elbow. ❋ Edwin John Dingle (1926)

One of these specimens of fleeting friendship was one-eyed, and a diseased hip rendered it difficult for him to keep pace with us; one was club-footed, one hair-lipped fellow had only half a nose, and they were nearly all goitrous. ❋ Edwin John Dingle (1926)

A goitrous man came to me and waxed eloquent about some uncontrollable pig which was dragging him all over the roadway as he vainly tried to get it to market. ❋ Edwin John Dingle (1926)

He was profoundly ill-proportioned, very goitrous, and ravages of small-pox had bequeathed to him a wonderful facial ugliness. ❋ Edwin John Dingle (1926)

The householder, a shrivelled, goitrous humpback, received me kindly, removed his pot of cabbage from the fire to brew tea for his uninvited guest, and showed great gratitude (to such an extent that he nearly fell into the fire as he moved to push the children forward towards me) when ❋ Edwin John Dingle (1926)

The person at present connected with her in the bonds of wedded life -- also goitrous and morally repulsive -- stood by and gazed down upon her like a proud bridegroom. ❋ Edwin John Dingle (1926)

To all syphilitics the children are born monsters, abortions, goitrous, consumptives, idiots. ❋ Bernard Guilbert Guerney (1904)

The prognosis of goitrous tumors is much better than might be expected, but evidently Aëtius saw a number of the functional disturbances and enlargements of the thyroid gland, which are so variable in character as apparently to be quite amenable to treatment. ❋ James Joseph Walsh (1903)

Of this number 2483 were born of healthy and sane fathers; 2285 from healthy mothers; 961 from goitrous fathers; 1267 from goitrous mothers; 49 from cretin fathers; 41 from cretin mothers; 106 from cretin fathers with goiter; 66 from cretin mothers with goiter; 438 fathers and 405 mothers were not specified. ❋ Unknown (1896)

All were speaking with horrible goitrous voices as if they had cleft palates, and the husband was hoarse with fury. ❋ Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 (1895)

On the green outside their cabin a husband with goitre, enraged against his goitrous wife, was kept from killing her by two elderly goitrous women. ❋ Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 (1895)

Frequently the disease is intensified in the offspring into cretinism, and I can conceive of no sight more disgusting than that which so often met our view, of a goitrous mother suckling her imbecile child. ❋ Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 (1895)

At the mission in Tali three women are employed, and of these two are goitrous; the third, a Minchia woman, is free from the disease, and I have been told that among the indigenes the disease is much less common than among the Chinese. ❋ Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 (1895)