Graves disease, also known as toxic diffuse goiter, was described separately by Dr.
Robert J Graves and Dr. Karl Adolph von Basedow in 1835 and 1840 respectively. Historians
give credit for the first description to the Persian physician Sayyd Ismail al-Juriani,
who in the XII century described a patient with goiter and exophthalmos [
[1]
]. We have analyzed 2000 paintings and sculptures from the western civilization to
determine the prevalence of personages with Graves disease.Keywords
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Publication history
Published online: March 24, 2017
Accepted:
March 20,
2017
Received:
March 15,
2017
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☆None of the authors has conflicts of interest to declare. No fund was received for this work.
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