[History of surgery of the parathyroid glands].

In 1850 Sir Richard Owen discovered the parathyroid glands in rhinoceros. After they have been discovered in man in 1880 their history spread all along the 20th century. The history started from the descriptive anatomy and the clinical pictures of their illness to the trouble of their functioning. The hormone was studied while the surgeons began to cure adenoma, hyperplasia and cancers.