William Miller Ord

William Miller Ord (September 23 1834 – May 14 1902) was a British medical scientist. He was a surgeon at St. Thomas Hospital in London. [http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=7377&inst_id=6] [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=2512147&pageindex=1]

In 1879 he described Ord's thyroiditis. [http://www.schilddruesenpraxis.de/nl_200505.shtml]

Publications

* " 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 - 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 myxoedema." Trans. Clin. Soc. Lond. 1888; 21 (Suppl)

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