. Medical diseases of infancy and childhood. teeth are well formed. She talks fluently and well, and has learnedto read a little, and is beginning to write, but she is backward fora girl of her age. The most remarkable phenomenon is the con-dition of the joints of the long bones. The shafts are short andlook thin, and the articulations are very large and irregular. Theshoulders are not much affected, but the elbow-joints, the wrist-joints, and the knees and ankles are enormously enlarged. She is ^ Osier: Sporadic Cretinism in America. (The American Journal of the MedicalSciences, Vol. CXIV., N
. Medical diseases of infancy and childhood. teeth are well formed. She talks fluently and well, and has learnedto read a little, and is beginning to write, but she is backward fora girl of her age. The most remarkable phenomenon is the con-dition of the joints of the long bones. The shafts are short andlook thin, and the articulations are very large and irregular. Theshoulders are not much affected, but the elbow-joints, the wrist-joints, and the knees and ankles are enormously enlarged. She is ^ Osier: Sporadic Cretinism in America. (The American Journal of the MedicalSciences, Vol. CXIV., No. 4.) CRETISISM. 261 a little knock-kneed when she stands. The mobility in the jointsis perfect. Alphonse C, aged eleven and a half years, height 87 cm. (33Jinches) (Fig. 29). The mother did not notice anything specialabout him except that he was late in walking, and the anteriorfontanelle did not close until between the third and fourth did m^t seem to gnnv much after the fourth year. He pre-sents an identical picture to that of
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