. Evolution and disease . Fig. 126.—An endemic Cretin twenty years old: one metrohigh. (From the Sardinian Report.) Until recently it was little thought that cretinism occurs in our country, although it was known that goitre is endemic in certain districts. In 1871 Dr. Hilton Faggc I clearly showed that cretins occurred in England Mcdico-Chir. Trans., 1S71, ZOOLOGICAL DLSTLiiryUTlON OF DLSEASE. 261 by publishing descriptions of undoubted examples. Oneof Fagges specimens is drawn in fig. 127, for compari-son with the endemic cretin on the opposite page. Thisboy is sixteen years and a half old,
. Evolution and disease . Fig. 126.—An endemic Cretin twenty years old: one metrohigh. (From the Sardinian Report.) Until recently it was little thought that cretinism occurs in our country, although it was known that goitre is endemic in certain districts. In 1871 Dr. Hilton Faggc I clearly showed that cretins occurred in England Mcdico-Chir. Trans., 1S71, ZOOLOGICAL DLSTLiiryUTlON OF DLSEASE. 261 by publishing descriptions of undoubted examples. Oneof Fagges specimens is drawn in fig. 127, for compari-son with the endemic cretin on the opposite page. Thisboy is sixteen years and a half old, rather less thana metre in height, and could understand a good dealof what was said to him, ask for what he wanted, andthe parents could understand what he Fig. 127.—A sporadic English Cretin, ratlier less than ametre in heiglit, and sixteen years of age. (After HiltonFagge.) In subsequent investigations Hilton Fagge showedthat, contrary to what he had originally stated, thethyroid body in some of these children was abnormallylarge. Since the attention of medical men has been drawn 262 E VOL UTION A ND DISEA SE. to this matter, a large number of cretins has beendetected in England, and many have been criticallyobserved, and detailed accounts of their anatomy placedon record, which remove any doubts as to the identityof the English sporadic with the Alpine endemic is also significant that since careful accounts of theleading features of the disease have been circulated,cretins have been recognized in many parts of England,and instead of being limited to the small village ofChiselborough, in Somersetshire, it turns out to be afar from infrequent condition in many large towns,
Size: 1327px × 1883px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectabnormalitieshuman
