William Miller Ord
William Miller Ord ( born September 23, 1834 † May 14, 1902 ) was a British physician. He was a surgeon at St. Thomas Hospital in London.
He described 1879 as the first Ord 's thyroiditis ( Autoimmunthyreopathie Type 1B and 2B), one of the two progressive forms of Hashimoto 's thyroiditis.
Writings
- On myxedema, a term Proposed to be Applied to on essential condition in the cretinoid infection -observed in middle aged women. Transactions of The Medical - Chirurgical 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 myxedema. Trans Clin. Soc. Lond. 1888; 21 ( Suppl)