Myxœdema and its nervous symptoms.

Savage, George Henry, 1842-1921.

Journal : Journal of Mental Science ; n.s., vol. xxv.

London : J. and A. Churchill, 1880.

Description : 517–519 p., [1 l.] pl. ; ill.: 2 phots. ; 25 cm.

Photographs : artotypes, oval portraits of 2 patients, on printed leaf.

Subject : Thyroid — Myxoedema.

Notes :

• Author caption: By Geo. H. Savage, M.D., Lond .
• Medical degree, Guy's Hospital, London, 1867.
• Assistant Medical Officer, Bethlem Royal Hospital, London, 1872.
• Chief Medical Officer, Bethlem Royal Hospital, 1879-88.
• MRCP, 1878.
• Cofounder, Journal of Mental Science, 1878.
• FRCP, 1885.
• President, Medico-Psychological Association, 1886.
• First President, Section of Psychiatry, Royal Society of Medicine.
• Lumleian Lecturer, 1907.
• Photo caption: Cases of Myxaedema [sic].
• Photographic subjects : patients of Dr. William Miller Ord, St. Thomas's Hospital.
• Index Medicus: 10906081170.

The two photographs were provided by Dr. William Miller Ord (1834-1902), whose name is eponymous with the idiopathic form of thyroiditis. Ord introduced the term, "myxoedema," to describe the symptoms of severely advanced hypothyroidism (GM-3825).