The practice of pediatrics . results may attimes be striking. This, of course, applies only to cretins who havebeen so from infancy and not to cases of myxedema acquired in latelife. In these latter cases the results of treatment are very satisfactory. Treatment.—The treatment of cretinism is one of the most brilliantresults of modern medicine. The credit belongs to a large number ofworkers, chief among whom may be mentioned the physicians Gulland Ord, who described the adult type of myxedema; the surgeonsKocher and the Reverdins for experimental and operative work, andthe physiologists Schifl
The practice of pediatrics . results may attimes be striking. This, of course, applies only to cretins who havebeen so from infancy and not to cases of myxedema acquired in latelife. In these latter cases the results of treatment are very satisfactory. Treatment.—The treatment of cretinism is one of the most brilliantresults of modern medicine. The credit belongs to a large number ofworkers, chief among whom may be mentioned the physicians Gulland Ord, who described the adult type of myxedema; the surgeonsKocher and the Reverdins for experimental and operative work, andthe physiologists SchiflF, Horsley, and von Eiselsberg for the directdemonstrations of the possibilities of treatment. If thvroid gland issupplied to the body, the effect is wonderful. Experimentally the living CRETINISM 855 gland was first grafted into the body; later the patients were fed on thefresh glands, and then the dried gland was used as being more con-venient for administration. The desiccated thyroids are now supplied
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