Neurologic Manifestations of Myxedema

Abstract

We may recognise in myxoedema three principal lines of abnormality. First, intellectual; consisting in slowness of thought, in slowness of volition, in loss of memory, in irritability of temper, in unwarranted suspicions, in delusions, in actual insanity, or in stupor growing to coma. Second, in sensation. General sensation undergoes a change . . . the recognition of impressions made on the surface is distinctly retarded . . . Thirdly, the motor powers are disturbed in a singular way; all motion is slow; co-ordination is imperfectly adjusted . . . Reflex actions are produced with considerable delay. (William Ord,¹ 1884.)THE . . .