Dr. George W. Crile. (From [5]. Reprinted with permission, Cleveland Clinic Center for Medical Art & Photography © 2014. All Rights Reserved) Introduction Born in 1864 in Chili, Ohio, Dr….

Illustation of Armand Trousseau History of Armand Trousseau Born in Tours, France in 1801, Armand Trousseau (1801–1867) studied medicine under the apprenticeship of the knowledgeable Pierre Bretonneau in Paris [1,…

Emil Theodor Kocher (From National Institutes of Health, unknown photographer) Emil Theodor Kocher was an outstanding personality, self-critical, systematic, modest, laborious and driven by a tremendous thrive for innovation. His…

Oliver Cope in 1964. (Courtesy of the MGH Archives) Introduction Oliver Cope is known to many as one of the fathers of endocrine surgery and for his seminal work on…

Complication Incidence Reference(s) Hypocalcemia (HBS) Primary 5–100 % (0–75 %) [7, 13–33] Secondary 80–100 % (27–95 %) [24, 38–42] RLN injury Initial 0.1–1.5 % [8, 28, 29] Reoperation 2.3–6 %…

Karl Hürthle (1914), deutscher Physiologe und Kreislaufforscher. Privatbesitz, Dr. Elisabeth Hürthle Introduction The cells Karl Hürthle initially described in dogs were actually C cells, i.e., he has long been wrongly…

Hugh Spear Pemberton [2]. (By courtesy of the University of Liverpool Library) Hugh Spear Pemberton was born on June 3, 1890, in Liverpool, England, the youngest son of Thomas Shepherd…

J. B. Collip as Dean of Medicine, in his office at the University of Western Ontario, ca 1950s. (Photo used with permission from Western University, Western Archives, History of Medicine…

Fig. 1 Histological section of normal thyroid, magnified 20 ×. Each colloid-filled follicle is surrounded by a single layer of thyroid follicular cells Thyroid Hormone Synthesis The thyroid gland produces…

Jerome W. Conn, Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan. (From Office of the Home Secretary, National Academy of Sciences. Biographical Memoirs V.71; © 1997 The National Academies Press) Dr. Jerome Conn…