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In the 19th Century, doctors were reluctant to operate on thyroid tumors like the ones shown in this 1875 photograph. That’s because the gland was so full of blood vessels that serious bleeding was a real risk. That meant some patients, like this man, faced the threat of slow asphyxiation.
Credit: Dr. Stanley B. Burns
