Editing Thyroid (section)

===Surgery===
Either [[Aëtius of Amida|Aetius]] in the sixth century CE<ref name=":2" /> or Persian [[Ali ibn Abbas al-Magusi]] in 990 CE conducted the first recorded thyroidectomy as a treatment for goitre.<ref name="timeline" /><ref name=":3">{{cite web|url=http://www.hormones.gr/115/article/article.html|title=Hormones.gr|last=Slidescenter.com|website=www.hormones.gr|access-date=2016-11-13}}</ref> Operations remained risky and generally were not successful until the 19th century, when descriptions emerged from a number of authors including Prussian surgeon [[Theodor Billroth]], Swiss surgeon and physiologist [[Theodor Kocher]], American physician [[Charles Horace Mayo|Charles Mayo]], American surgeons [[William Halsted]] and [[George Washington Crile|George Crile]]. These descriptions provided the basis for modern thyroid surgery.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Werner|first1=Sidney C.|last2=Ingbar|first2=Sidney H.|last3=Braverman|first3=Lewis E.|last4=Utiger|first4=Robert D. | name-list-style = vanc |title=Werner & Ingbar's the Thyroid: A Fundamental and Clinical Text|publisher=Lippincott Williams & Wilkins|isbn=978-0-7817-5047-9|page=387|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HoOm6PuNcwwC&q=thyroid+gland+2700BC&pg=PA387|language=en|year=2005}}</ref> [[Theodor Kocher]] went on to win the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1909 "for his work on the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid gland".<ref>{{cite web
 | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1909/index.html
 | title = The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1909
 | access-date = 2007-07-28
 | publisher = Nobel Foundation
}}</ref>