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At the origin of “Endocrinology and Art”: Woman’s Head (third century BCE)

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In 1911, the Danish physician Hans Christian Gram (1853–1938) sustained to have found signs of hyperthyroidism in a marble head of a Roman woman that he observed in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. It could be one of the first examples of a clinical diagnosis of an endocrine disease in an ancient statue.

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  1. School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Via Cadore 48, 20900, Monza, Italy

    M. A. Riva, A. Paleari & M. Belingheri

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Riva, M.A., Paleari, A. & Belingheri, M. At the origin of “Endocrinology and Art”: Woman’s Head (third century BCE). J Endocrinol Invest 43, 1673–1674 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40618-020-01416-0

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