. Internal medicine; a work for the practicing physician on diagnosis and treatment, with a complete Desk index. 586 MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS. remain open. The belly is protuberant, the hands and feet are clumsy andill-formed, the legs short, the muscles weak and flabby, and the child isunable to stand or walk. The hair is thin and brittle and the skin dry andharsh. The rectal temperature is commonly subnormal and there is greatsensitiveness to cold. The mental condition remains undeveloped. Speechis acquired late and is rudimentary. There are various degrees of cretins are dull and amia
. Internal medicine; a work for the practicing physician on diagnosis and treatment, with a complete Desk index. 586 MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS. remain open. The belly is protuberant, the hands and feet are clumsy andill-formed, the legs short, the muscles weak and flabby, and the child isunable to stand or walk. The hair is thin and brittle and the skin dry andharsh. The rectal temperature is commonly subnormal and there is greatsensitiveness to cold. The mental condition remains undeveloped. Speechis acquired late and is rudimentary. There are various degrees of cretins are dull and amiable, not often vicious, and present many ofthe characteristics of infancy at the age of ten or fifteen years. The fattytumors seen in the myxoedema of adults are very common. Diagnosis.—The direct diagnosis is unattended with difficulty. Thefacies, the retardation of physical and mental development, the fat pads,and the subnormal temperature are distinctive. Differential —The early cases are sometimes mistakenfor rickets. In the latter affection sweating of the head, craniotabes,.
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