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Surgeons, pathologists and internists are alike interested in every addition to our knowledge of goiter and its complications. With the exception of Dock's chapter in Osler's book no treatise has heretofore appeared giving adequate descriptions of the parathyroid glandules. Numerous articles in various languages contained all that was really important in the newer surgery and pathology of goiter until this admirable treatise made its appearance. The latest research in the physiology and pathology of those somewhat mysterious bodies, the parathyroid glandules, is carefully collated in this work and together with the pathology of the thyroid gland this is the work of the junior author (Thompson). The senior author (Ochsner) has contributed the chapters on technic and the whole thyroid gland section except the chapters on pathology. The whole subject of the operative treatment of goiter may be said to belong to the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the