The thyroid gland / by Charles H. Mayo and Henry W. Plummer.

  • Charles Horace Mayo
Date:
1925
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Credit: The thyroid gland / by Charles H. Mayo and Henry W. Plummer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE The interest manifested in goiter problems is not only significant but of a sustained, abiding character, touch¬ ing as it does wide and varied geographic areas and involving every phase of medical practice directly or indirectly. It is a subject holding and obscuring as yet its unknowns in such ways as to allure and fascinate the most ardent and best of clinical research workers. The critical reader is ready to judge compilations and also reports from research workers with the same atti¬ tude of mind. The judgment is usually most severe when the authors write upon subjects of greatest familiarity to the reader. The responsibility then, should obviously, be keenly felt and seriously met by authors who offer further contributions to this widely studied subject. The extent of work done upon thyroid disease can scarcely be comprehended, for internists, surgeons and laboratorians have been equally active in efforts to solve its riddles. The interpretation of results thus far at¬ tained is not easily made. It is most gratifying to the Beaumont Foundation Committee of the Wayne County Medical Society to present this opportunity to the readers of the Fourth Lecture Series of an authoritative resume of thyroid disease from one of the greatest Amer¬ ican medical centers and contributed by master students of the subject who have had unexcelled opportunities for investigations in all of its interesting phases. The Mayo Clinic has been favored in having the largest
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