Surgery and pathology of the thyroid and parathyroid glands / Albert J. Ochsner and Ralph L. Thompson.

  • Ochsner, Albert J. (Albert John), 1858-1925.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Surgery and pathology of the thyroid and parathyroid glands / Albert J. Ochsner and Ralph L. Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the search for support for the various ideas in- corporated in this volume in the literature of the subject there have been encountered in the original and in abstracts and references nearly twelve hundred monographs, articles and case reports, less than ten per cent, of these being surgical. It would be quite useless to enumerate these and many others which a further search of the literature would reveal, and consequently only those have been added to the bibliography that have aided very materially in the development of the surgical side of the subject. history. The surgical history of the diseases of the thyroid gland is extremely meager before the last quarter of the past century, when the remarkable work of Theodor Kocher attracted the attention of the entire surgical world by his practical demonstration—first in a few, then in hundreds and later in thousands of cases—that thyroidectomy, if performed skillfully, is not the extremely dangerous operation that the earlier surgeons had pictured. He eliminated the principal dangers—namely, those from anaesthesia, sepsis, hemorrhage, shock, hyper- thyroidism, cachexia strumipriva, injury to the re- current laryngeal nerve and injury to the para- thyroid glands-—and gave us relatively an exceedingly safe surgical procedure. In many of these features, and especially in many of the details, much impor- tant support came from other sources. Moebius supplied a most important element for the rational surgical treatment of the important class of exophthalmic goitre by his logical and con-