Includes bibliographical references and index.

The phylogeny, ontogeny, anatomy, and metabolic regulation of the thyroid -- Hormone synthesis, secretion, and action -- Physiology of the hypothalamus, pituitary, and thyroid -- Effects of drugs and other agents and diseases on the thyroid -- Evaluation of thyroid function in health and in disease -- Graves' disease and the manifestations of thyrotoxicosis -- Graves' disease: diagnosis and treatment -- Graves' disease: complications -- Hashimoto's thyroiditis: a disease of autoimmunity -- Adult hypothyroidism -- Hypothyroidism in infants and children, and developmental abnormalities of the thyroid gland -- Endemic goiter and related disorders -- Hereditary defects in hormone synthesis, transport, and action -- Acute and subacute thyroiditis -- Multinodular goiter -- Thyroid neoplasia -- Role of the thyroid in nonthyroidal illnesses -- Surgery of the thyroid gland -- Index.