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Title: Medical diseases of infancy and childhood
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Williams, Dawson, 1854- (from old catalog) Churchill, Frank Spooner, 1864- (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Children
Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, Lea brothers & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Congenital cretinism. The same patient as Fig. 25 after treatment for six months with thyroidextract. (Dr. W. Rushton Parkers case; the history of the patient is related in the Brit. Med,Journ., 1896, vol. i., 1350.) usually easy ; but in infancy and early childhood it may sometimesbe difficult to feel certain that the mental deficiency may notown another cause. The type of idiocy commonly spoken of asMongolian, illustrated in Chapter XLL, presents a considerableresemblance to cretinism. Growth is stunted, the expression dull, CRETIXISM. 259 the mouth open, the tougiio often hu*ge, the movements nncertain,and speech, which is acquired hite, is moiiosyHabic. The skin iscoai-se, the subcutaneous tissues are thick, and marginal blepharitis Fu;.
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Adolescent cretin, aged 22 years, after treatment for three and a half years with thyroidextract, showing bending of leg-bones, comparative growth of arms and legs, and alteration in! of hands. (From a photograph by permission of Dr. John Thomson.) is very common. Lipomata do not occur, the slowness of intellectm infancy is less marked, mf>vements are usually quirk and jerky,and bodily development though -low i< not arrested as in well-markedcongenital cretinism. 260 DISEASES OF THE THYROID AND THYMUS GLANDS. (The condition known as foetal rickets achondroplasia or the chon-drodystrophia foetalis, is liable to be mistaken for cretinism. Osler^reports the following 2 cases : The parents were healthy French Canadians. There werefourteen children in the family, the eldest twenty-seven, theyoungest four. Five children had died in infancy. With theexception of the dwarfs, the children were all very healthy andwell grown. Wilhelmine C, aged sixteen years, height 86.5 cm. (34 inches)(F

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