Basedow's disease: disease due to excessive thyroid function
After the German physician Karl Adolph von Basedow (Dessau 1799 Merseburg 1854).
Basedow worked in Merseburg an der Saale, where he described the disease in 1840. In Ireland, the disease had already been identified five years earlier by Robert Graves, so that it is called Graves's disease in the Anglo-Saxon language area.
The disease is characterized by swelling of the neck, increased heart rate and bulging eyes.
One day, in search of the cause of the incurable typhoid fever, Basedow dissected the corpse of a man who had died of that ailment. He infected himself and died a few days later.
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