"Graves' disease" Quotes from Famous Books
... abnormal thyreoid secretion. This thyreoid toxaemia varies in degree; in the milder cases it merely amounts to a nervousness or excitability that may unfit the patient for occupation; it reaches its maximum in the condition of hyperthyreoidism characteristic of exophthalmic goitre or Graves' disease ... — Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles |