Surgery and Pathology of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands #223639

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.