Transplantation of the thyroid and parathyroid glands into various organs and tissues

Abstract

M.G. and M.G. The question of a thyroid gland transplant arose soon after the discoveries of Ord (1880), replacing the absence of a thyroid gland in myxedemic patients at autopsy, a neuropathologist Weiss (1880), who indicated that after total extirpation of the thyroid gland, convulsions appear, called by him tetany, Reverdin (1882) and Kocher (1883), who firmly established that complete removal of the thyroid gland leads to sharp changes in both the mental and the physical organism. He called this disease Renegdin “myxedema postoperatorie”, and Kocher “cachexia strumipriva.” They also pointed out that cretinism depends on the absence of a thyroid gland.

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