Excerpt from Diseases of the Thyroid Gland and Their Surgical Treatment This book is based upon the Essay to which the Jacksonian Prize of the Royal College of Surgeons for 1886 was awarded. The essay in its original form was never published because I felt that at that time I had had so little personal experience of thyroid operative surgery, that it was undesirable to commit my observations to print. During the last fourteen years, however, I have enjoyed unusual facilities for the study of this branch of surgery, and much of what was written in the original essay has been entirely rewritten, by the light of further experience. The Hunterian Lectures, which I had the honour of deliver ing at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1891, have also been incorporated in the present work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.