Abstract
Clinical medicine has stamped forever an indelible impression on our specialty. The trend of modern education with demand for higher standards, a longer curriculum, better teaching and more hospital work has forced on us a special training that carries us more and more into special surgical fields remote from internal medicine. It is imperative that our training as special nasal, oral, pharyngeal and laryngeal surgeons shall not rob us of a keen interest in the problems of diagnosis in relation to general medicine. A few decades ago our ranks were filled by the general practitioner alone, while the higher standards of today require the development of special surgical technicians. This differentiation of specialism has progressed so rapidly that we find among us a few who devote their time exclusively to one subject, such as intubation, bronchoscopy or hay-fever. The anatomic position of the thyroid gland, its functions, and correlations with
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