Rahman, G.A.; Mamudu, N. A.
(Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia & Analgesia, 2004)
The first successful thyroidectomy on record appears to have been performed in about 952 A.D. in Zahra, an Arab city of Spain by a Moorish physician, Albucassis. The extirpation of thyroid gland for goiter typifies, perhaps ...