Surgery and Pathology of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The first decade of the present century has added the treatment of the' diseases of the thyroid gland to the surgical side of our art. This applies more especially to that form of disease which had been most discouraging heretofore, and which now is one of the most satisfactory conditions in the field of major surgery - namely, the disease generally known in America as exophthalmic goitre.