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Sporadic Cretinism: in the centre is seen the trachea with the sterno-hyoid and thyroid muscles turned aside. Outside these are the sterno-mastoid muscles and still externally are the fatty tumours.

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Title: A Dictionary of psychological medicine giving the definition, etymology and synonyms of the terms used in medical psychology, with the symptoms, treatment, and pathology of insanity and the law of lunacy in Great Britain and Ireland
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Tuke, Daniel Hack, 1827-1895
Subjects: Psychology, Pathological Mental illness Mental health laws Mental health laws Psychiatry Psychology
Publisher: Philadelphia : P. Blakiston
Contributing Library: Univ. of Mass Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Univ. of Mass Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library

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bout it, as the subject istreated of byProf.Horsley,* but it is one inwhich we take great interest. Long ago,and previously to the publication of thereport of the committee appointed by theClinical Society to investigate the subjectof myxoedema, we were convinced thatthere was a close relation between the twodiseases, and that in fact myxoedema andsporadic cretinism were the same disease.We were led to this conclusion partlyfrom the observation of cases of myx-oedema kindly shown to us by Dr. Ord inthe v/ards of St. Thomass Hospital, andfrom an extensive acquaintance with theclinical signs of sporadic cretinism, manycases having been under our care; andpartly from the fact that the intrinsic* See Cketinism. Idiocy, Pathology of 658 Idiocy, Pathology of pathological appearances are common toboth. We had the opportunity a year ortwo ago to make a more extended exami- FlG. cleus is situated at the base, sometimesat the apex. The cells have few proces-ses, and these are small and stunted.
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Ill the centre is seen the trachea with the stcriio-hyoid ami thyroid muscles turned aside.Outside these arc the steruo-uiastoid muscles and still externally are the fatty tumours. nation than usual of a case of sporadiccretinism, and we foiind excess of mucinin the skin, and excess of fibrous tissue inthe lungs, liver, spleen, and kidneys.More we cannot say, as the case willshortly be published. Usually, in spora-dic cretinism, there is no thyroid gland,but cases are on record, and we have hadone under our own care, in which a goi-trous condition was present. Concurrentlywith the usual absence of the thyroidgland is the presence of fatty tumours inthe posterior triangles of the neck. Theconvolutions of the brain are simple in ar-rangement. We close this article with a short accountof the microscopical appearances ofthe brain in idiocy. The cells as a general rule are notpyramidal or irregularly angular, but areround or pear-like in shape. The nucleus,which is either round or oval, is

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