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British surgeon Sir John Bland-Sutton (1855-1936)

Bland-Sutton had described a postmortem specimen of a parathyroid tumor in 1886, had surgically removed a parathyroid cyst in 1909, and had performed a parathyroidectomy for a parathyroid tumor some time before 1917. (Courtesy of the U.S. Library of Congress. Public domain.)

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