William Miller Ord

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William Miller Ord

William Miller Ord ( September 23, 1834 -  May 14, 1902 ) was a British medic . He was a surgeon at St. Thomas Hospital in London .

In 1879 he was the first to describe Ord thyroiditis (autoimmune thyroiditis types 1B and 2B), one of the two forms of Hashimoto's thyroiditis .

Fonts

  • On Myxoedema, a term proposed to be applied to an essential condition in the cretinoid infection observed in middle aged women. Transactions of The Medical - Surgical Society Of London 1878; 61: 57
  • Report of a committee of the Clinical Society of London nominated December 14, 1883, to investigate the subject of myxoedema. Trans. Clin. Soc. Lond. 1888; 21 (Suppl)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=7377&inst_id=6
  2. ↑ http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=2512147&pageindex=1
  3. ↑ Ord thyroiditis or Hashimoto's thyroiditis? ( Memento of May 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Ord, William Miller
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British medic (surgeon)
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1834
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1902