One day while I was posting an article on the Hypothyroid Mom Facebook Page, a comment from a follower jumped off the screen at me. All I saw was “I found the old term for hypothyroidism “myxoedema” on death certificates from the early 1900s” and I had to find out more.
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The original term for hypothyroidism “myxoedema” on old death certificates
June 6, 2018 by 2 Comments
First recorded accounts of the clinical features of adult hypothyroidism, 1873
May 4, 2018 by 8 Comments
Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
Queen Victoria’s court physician Sir William Withey Gull is credited as the first person to record the clinical features of hypothyroidism in adults in his 1873 seminal paper.[1] [Read more…]
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