A CLINICAL STUDY OF THE MILD GRADES OF HYPOTHYROIDISM
Authors: Blanton P. Seward
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1935)

Article1 August 1935A CLINICAL STUDY OF THE MILD GRADES OF HYPOTHYROIDISMBLANTON P. SEWARD, B.A., M.D., F.A.C.P.BLANTON P. SEWARD, B.A., M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-9-2-178 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe descriptions of the features of two children in whom no thyroid glands were found at autopsy by Curling1in 1850, and of sporadic cretinism in England by Fagge2in 1871, stimulated the interest of physicians in a disease hitherto not investigated. Fagge regarded "wasting of the thyroid body" as the probable cause of cretinism and he predicted with remarkable accuracy some of the symptoms that might result from a deficiency in the secretion of the thyroid in adults. Two years later Sir William Gull3reported two cases of the cretinoid state developing in adults. 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