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A woman suffering with myxedema, the condition described by the English physician Gull as a cretinoid state supervening in the adult life of woman, has an insufficient amount of thyroxin in her blood and tissues.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

The disease was first described by Sir William Gull as a cretinoid change, and later by William Ord of London, who suggested the name.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)