The Symptoms of Myxœdema and Exophthalmic Goitre Contrasted
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the thyroid gland is diseased?atrophied in myxoedema, and (usually) hypertrophied in exophthalmic goitre?and inasmuch as both diseases affect women much more frequently than men. But in their mode of development and the character of many of their symptoms the two diseases are very different. The symptoms of myxoedema are almost always developed in a very slow, insidious, and gradual manner ;x the symptoms of exophthalmic goitre not unfrequently develop with considerable rapidity, sometimes, indeed, suddenly after a fright or other profound emotional disturbance. The age at which myxoedema is developed is, as a rule, much later than that at which exophthalmic goitre occurs. The ordinary adult form of myxoedema usually develops after the age of 30; the disease is very rarely indeed developed between the age of infancy and 30, i.e., during early adult life (15 to 25). Exophthalmic goitre, on the contrary, very often, indeed in fact usually, develops between the ages of 15 and 25. Myxoedema is most frequent in married women who have , borne large families; while exophthalmic goitre is most common in unmarried (single) women, and (?) in married women who have
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