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2 inches ; weight 6734 pounds. Blue eyes, red hair, sight and hear- 
ing perfect. Speech somewhat indistinct, and vocabulary limited. 
Powers of attention, comprehension, imitation, and memory fair. Is 
active, noisy, amiable, affectionate, truthful, neat in dress and cleanly 
in habits. Can wash and dress himself, and is helpful about the 
house. 

Delicate from birth ; did not learn to walk until fourth year, 
when his cretinous condition was first recognized. A mute, he pre- 
sented all the characteristics of a typical cretin, until his tenth year, 
when placed on thyroid (two and one half grains extract, three times 
a day), the improvement was marked, both mental and physical; 
he grew 6 inches, improved in speech, and brightened in every way. 

Eleventh child, born at full term ; hard labor ; nourished by mother 
for 2 years, who when 3 months pregnant nursed 4 of her children 
with scarlet fever. Father, a laborer, was 45 and mother 40, at