Excerpt from The Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association, 1933, Vol. 26 In this discussion of the diseases of the thyroid, I have tried to keep in mind the viewpoint that only a clinical classifica tion that can clearly be grasped by the general practitioner of medicine - and that can be utilized in arriving at a correct and early diagnosis should be considered, leav ing the more technical morphological classification to the diagnostic acumen of the pathologist to whom the microscopic classification is more important. Ever since we became interested in goi ter work, we have pleaded for a simple and basically sound clinical classification upon which every clinician, regardless whether he be in general practice or devot ing his major efforts to some specialty, can firmly place his diagnostic feet, and, with confidence in his own medical abil ity clasp hands with his confreres with a feeling of assurance that he is not grop ing in a miasma of uncertainty. 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.