Historical perspectives on health. A historical approach to study of the function and dysfunction of the thyroid gland realised?

a new observation or establishes a new piece of information on account of the fact that he/she is not in a position to view a new idea in total perspective. The context of the whole at any one time can only be seen in the light of current knowledge, combined with the degree of individual awareness of a situation. Newly acquired information may indeed lie dormant for many years before a scientific application is found often in a very different discipline. This accompanying assembly of dates is an attempt to list in a meaningful way milestones in the evolution of knowledge in relation to the thyroid gland. In a task such as this it is, of course, very difficult to identify the name of every author who has contributed to