The treatment of Graves' disease by thyroidectomy / by James J. Putnam.

  • Putnam, James Jackson, 1846-1918.
Date:
1893
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    mgm $T>t*** / 1 «BRAi tftWWi&k ***&*> VOL. XVIII. December, 1893. No. 12. THE Journal OF Nervous and Mental Disease. THE TREATMENT OF GRAVES' DISEASE BY THYROIDECTOMY.' By JAMBS J. PUTNAM, M.D., EVERY neurologist must have noticed with interest, within the past few years, the growth of a sen- timent among the German surgeons in favor of partial removal of the thyroid in the treatment of Graves’ disease, a measure which in most neurological text-books, even the most recent, is not spoken of with favor. The number of typical cases in which the opera- tion has been done, is, to be sure, rather small, and the number of surgeons who have done them is smaller still, but the proportion of successful results is very large. Thus, Moebius, who was the first to bring strongly into prominence the ideu that Graves’ disease is a species of thyroid cachexia (Zsch. f. Nkr., 1890), refers to a few cases in most of which a substantial cure was obtained through operation. Wette, in his admirable analysis of Riedel’s operations on goitre in general {Arch. f. Kim. Chir. vol. xliv.), gives three new cases of partial thyroid- ectomy in Graves’ disease, and a summary of thirty others. Only one of these ended fatally, while in all but one of the rest cure or great improvement was noted. To this collection a dozen typical cases and sevoral analogous cases can now be added. In fact, the history of thyroidec- 1 Read at the annual meeting of the American Neurological Asso- Association, July, 1893. ©rigitmt Articles. Boston, Mass.