Collier's New Encyclopedia

A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

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Goiter

or GOITRE (Latin, guttur the throat), or Bronchocele. A disease which arises arises from a morbid enlargement of the thyroid gland, causing an unsightly, but painless, deformity. It is more common among women than among men, in the proportion of about 12 to 1. It prevails chiefly, if not exclusively, in villages situated on or close to limestone rocks.

GOJAM (gō-jäm'), a province of Abyssinia, lying S. of Lake Dembea; lat. 10° to 11° N., lon. 37° to 38° E. The surface is, in many portions, mountainous; in others it is diversified by hill and dale, affording good pastures, which are well watered by the various affluents of the Abai river.

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