Sir William Gull brought before the Clinical Society of London observations on five cases illustrating what he described as "la cretinoid state supervening in adult life in women."The term cretinoid was avowedly used in that communication in a tentative or provisional way, and the cases were brought forward in the hope of directing attention to the state denoted by it, which Sir William Gull regarded as a substantive and de- finite one.Having during the last twelve years had under care at least five cases of a similar kind, in one of which I had the opportunity of making a post-mortem examination, I propose to record two of them at some length, to make short reference to the others, and to draw inferences.1. H. J-, aet. 54,came under my notice as an out- patient at St. Thomas's Hospital in 1871.She was a widow,
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W. M. Ord (1878) studied this question.