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OBITUARY. 



William Miller Ord, M.D. F.R.C.P. 

 1834-1902. 



Dr. Ord was the son of a medical man residing at Streatham, and 

 received his professional education at St. Thomas's Hospital, to the 

 staff of which institution he was elected in 1871. From this date 

 till 1898, when he retired with the honorary title of Consulting 

 Physician to the Hospital, his time was actively employed in 

 teaching medicine, in clinical observation, and in scientific re- 

 searches. In the medical profession his name will be remembered 

 in connection with Myxcedema, on which morbid condition he was 

 an authority. To the Pathological Society he made numerous 

 communications, especially on calculi, that on an ' Indigo Calculus 

 from the kidney ' being a pioneering observation. His claim to 

 scientific originality is perhaps best supported by his work on 

 ' The Influence of Colloids upon Crystalline Form and Cohesion,' 

 in which he showed that the shape of urinary crystals was in a 

 measure dependent on the presence of albumen and mucus in the 

 urine. 



Dr. Ord joined the Royal Microscopical Society in 1879, and 

 some twenty years ago was a frequent attendant at the meetings. 

 To the Transactions of the Society he contributed the following 

 papers : — (1) Studies on the Natural History of the Urates, 

 Monthly Microscopical Journal, 1875, p. 108, 1 pi. ; (2) On Some 

 Causes of Brownian Movements, Journ. Roy. Microscop. Soc, 1879, 

 p. 656, 2 figs. ; (3) On Erosion of the Surface of Glass when ex- 

 posed to the joint action of carbonate of lime and colloids," Journ. 

 Roy. Microscop. Soc, 1885, p. 761. 



