Note on a Case of Fatal Tracheal Compression by Enlarged Thyroid in a New-Born Infant

The rarity of thyroid swellings in the foetus and an interesting question raised by a consideration of the letiology of some such cases, form my excuse for bringing the following case under your notice to-night. The specimen of the enlarged thyroid I exhibited at our last meeting: it presented two equally enlarged lateral lobes, each about the size of a large marble, united by an isthmus about the thickness of an adult little-finger. The history of the case is briefly as follows:? On the afternoon of 24th February I was called to attend Mrs G-., ?et. 24, in her third confinement. Labour had set