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Historical Bibliography Updated: August 7, 2021

Removal of the right lobe of the thyroid gland.

Publication Details

Lancet, 2, 351-52. 1828 CE–1829 CE.

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

Thematic Classifications

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#3814
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/4829
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLremoval-of-the-right-lobe-of-the-thyroid-gland

Geographic Context

Mentioned in annotation: London