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Palpitation of the heart with enlargement of the thyroid gland.

Publication Details

Lond. med. surg. J. (Renshaw), 7, 516-17. 1835 CE.

This is considered the first accurate account of exophthalmic goitre, later known as “Parry’s disease”, “Graves’s disease”, and “Basedow’s disease”. An interesting fact about the London Medical & Surgical Journal is that after the first five volumes had been published by Renshaw and edited by M. Ryan, these two separated, each continuing to publish a separate edition of the same journal. Graves’s paper appeared in the series published by Renshaw. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1940, 5, 33-36.

Thematic Classifications

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#3815
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/4830
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLpalpitation-of-the-heart-with-enlargement-of-the-thyroid-gland

Geographic Context

Mentioned in annotation: London