The practice of surgery . tissue, obtained preferablyfrom man.^ The implantation of parathyroid tissue has not yet ledus to definite therapeutic knowledge. Interesting as are the results of the loss of thyroid secretion, theresults of excessive secretion are more interesting still. These cases ofexcessive secretion are grouped under the head of thyrotoxic diseases.^ Albert Kocher, Keens System of Surgery, vol. iii. 600 THE FACE AND NECK Thyrotoxic Diseases [Graves Disease; Basedows Disease; Exoph-thalmic Goiter; Hi/p<rthi/ridism).—The cha,racteri«ti( feature of thesediseases is that the int
The practice of surgery . tissue, obtained preferablyfrom man.^ The implantation of parathyroid tissue has not yet ledus to definite therapeutic knowledge. Interesting as are the results of the loss of thyroid secretion, theresults of excessive secretion are more interesting still. These cases ofexcessive secretion are grouped under the head of thyrotoxic diseases.^ Albert Kocher, Keens System of Surgery, vol. iii. 600 THE FACE AND NECK Thyrotoxic Diseases [Graves Disease; Basedows Disease; Exoph-thalmic Goiter; Hi/p<rthi/ridism).—The cha,racteri«ti( feature of thesediseases is that the intoxication of the body is effected through hyper-phisia of the thyroid gland, so that, as we should expect, operationsupon the gland are almost invariably followed l)y improvement in thepatients symptoms. The symptoms of Graves disease are extremely numerous, and I shallsketch them in the briefest detail. The thyroid gland itself is enlargeduniformly, and one discovers in it a thrill, blowing murmurs, expansive. v/». %-^
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