Diseases of the thyroid gland. ..

Murray George Redmayne 1865-

Sujets

• Myxedema
• Cretinism
• Thyroid
• Disease

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 5
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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LIBRARY.
of andDepartment Pathology Bacteriology
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
CATALOGDISEASES
OF THE
THYBOID GLANDDISEASES
OF THE
THTEOID GLAND
PART I.
MYXCEDEMA AND CRETINISM
BY ,
GEORGE Rf^MURRAY
M.D.M.A., CAMB./F.R.C.P.
HEATH PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM
PHYSICIAN TO THE ROYAL NEWCASTLEINFIRMARY,
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
136H. K. GOWER W.C.STREET,LEWIS,
1900PREFACE.
TN the I endeavoured tohavefollowing pages
-*- describe in a convenient form the results
of the observations which have been made
the last few on the functionsduring years
of the and their relation tothyroid gland,
the and treatment of thesymptoms, pathology,
diseases to which it is liable. As far as pos-
sible the clinical and pathological descriptions
are founded on and theobservations,personal
illustrations have all been fromprepared my
own and cases. It has been foundspecimens
convenient to divide the into twosubject
so that in this volume the structureparts,
and functions of the will bethyroid gland
considered with the two diseases,together
and which are due to losscretinism,myxcedema
of those functions. Goitre, exophthalmic goitre,
and other will be describeddiseases,thyroidal
later in the second the whole ofpart. Nearly
the first of the Goulstoniantwo Lectures on the
of the deliveredGland,Pathology Thyroid byvi PREFACE.
me at the of in 1899,Royal College Physicians
as well as some short extracts from articlemy
on Diseases of the Gland in Vol. IV. ofThyroid
"Twentieth Practice ofthe Medicine,"Century
inhave heen this volume.incorporated
G. R. M.
ELLISON11, PLACE, NEWCASTLE,
1900.November,