Exophthalmic Goiter and Its Non-Surgical Treatment
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Surgical Treatment. -By Israel Bram, m.d. C. V. Mosby Company, St. Louis, 1920. Thk author should entertain no fear that his book may not be tolerated: it rather requires a welcome. The whole subject of Graves' disease is carefully reviewed: no new theories of its pathogenesis are advanced, but the author inclines to the view that the hyperthyroidism of the disease is itself an incidental product of several other factors. There are cases of hyperthyroidism which are not cases of Graves' disease: in some of these the proper treatment may be surgical. But, as regards Graves' disease, the futility of removing the thyroid gland, partly or wholly, of removing the thymus, or of resecting the cervical sympathetic nerves is shown by the fact that after such procedures recurrences of the disease
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