Clinical and Metabolic Studies in Thyroid Disease--I

Abstract

I have chosen for these two lectures a title which will permit me to cover a very wide field, but which compels me, therefore, to be selective in my approach, and I should like first of all to explain what directed my choice of the topics on which I intend to speak. My interest in thyroid disease was first stimulated soon after I qualified, and since then I have seen and taken part in a steady advance in the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid dysfunction. The direction of my investigations has on several occasions been decided by events in my own particular career, and I hope I may be allowed the pleasure of a few reminiscences which will, I think, make clearer to you the shape of the lectures I am privileged to give to the College.