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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine
GREEN, Joseph Henry (1791 – 1863)

GREEN, Joseph Henry (1791 – 1863)

1791 – 1863

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1828 CE–1829 CE

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Removal of the right lobe of the thyroid gland.

GREEN, Joseph Henry (1791 – 1863)
GREEN, Joseph Henry (1791 – 1863)

To Joseph Green, of St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, is accredited the first thyroidectomy, the patient succumbing 15 days later from sepsis.