Green practiced rapid removal of the tumor and ligated the bleeding vessels later.

Rose tied each vessel before cutting, proceeding slowly.

Senn remarks that in 1878 he witnessed one of Rose's operations which lasted for four hours.

Although the operatic technic of removal of the thyroid gland for tumor has been greatly perfected by Billroth, Lucke, Julliard, Reverdin, Socin, Kocher, and others, the current opinion at the present day seems to be that complete extirpation of the thyroid gland, except for malignant disease, is unjustifiable.

Partial extirpation of the thyroid gland is still practiced; and Wolfler has revived the operation of ligating the thyroid arteries in the treatment of tumors of the thyroid gland.
Fibromata .-- One of the commonest seats of fibroma is the skin.
Multiple fibromata of the skin sometimes occur in enormous numbers and cover the whole surface of the body; they are often accompanied by pendulous tumors of enormous size.