303 pages, 190 illustrations. A classic in illustrated operated surgery by KOCHER, Emil Theodor (1841-1917) Swiss professor of surgery from Bern. He demonstrated the function of the thyroid and developed surgical treatments for disorders of the thyroid, including tumors and goiter. By the time of his death in 1917, Kocher had performed over 2000 thyroid operations with a mortality rate of just over 4%. He isolated one of the thyroid hormones and used it in replacement therapy. He pioneered methods of brain and spinal cord surgery and an operation for reduction of subluxation of the shoulder joint. Kocher was the first surgeon to be honored with the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1909. His of Operative Surgery, published in 1894, ran into many editions and was translated into several languages.