. Medical diseases of infancy and childhood. nital 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 cm. (34 inches)(Fig. 28). The
. Medical diseases of infancy and childhood. nital 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 cm. (34 inches)(Fig. 28). The mother did not remember anything abnormalabout her as a young infant. She walked w^hen eighteen monthsold. The head seemed large, and the mother said that the fontanelledid not close until the sixth year. When between three and four itwas noticed that she did not develop naturally, and that the jointswere very large. She is bright looking and intelligent, but some-what full and coarse-featured. The head measures 56 cm. The Fig. 28. Fig.
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