Presidential Address: American Goiter Association
1949; Oxford University Press; Volume: 9; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1210/jcem-9-10-967
ISSN1945-7197
Autores Tópico(s)Medical and Biological Sciences
ResumoAMONG the great physicians and surgeons who have contributed most to our knowledge of goiter in the past, we think of Kocher, Graves, Joll, Basedow, Crile, C. H. Mayo, Halsted and Plummer. There have been others whose scientific achievements might merit high recognition in the field of thyroid disease but whose work has not left such a deep imprint. Of those who achieved world recognition for their work on goiter, none received greater acclaim than did a former president of this Association—Doctor Henry S. Plummer. Through his contribution on the use of Lugol's solution in the preoperative treatment of exophthalmic goiter, his name became known to physicians in every civilized country. Yet this idea which meant the saving of so many thousands of lives, and which so lessened the worries of physicians and surgeons, was only one of the remarkable advancements he brought to this field of medicine. Of the great men in medicine and the other professions whom I have had an opportunity to know, there has been but one genius: Henry Plummer. He was a man who, no matter in what field—architecture, engineering, horticulture, conservation, tool craft, business administration, statistics, roentgenology, bacteriology, otolaryngology or bronchoscopy, to mention only a few of his many accomplishments—would have been outstanding.
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