. The endocrine organs; an introduction to the study of internal secretion . A B FIG. 18. — Myxcedema of child (A) before and (B) after treatment with thyroid. (Byrom Bramwell.) The highest functions of the nervous system remain undeveloped, the child becoming idiotic: this seems tobe due to an arrested development ofcells of the cortex cerebri. The above combination of symptomsforms the condition known as may be either sporadic or former is generally associated withabsence or early atrophy of the thyroid ;the latter with goitrous endemic cretinism, a
. The endocrine organs; an introduction to the study of internal secretion . A B FIG. 18. — Myxcedema of child (A) before and (B) after treatment with thyroid. (Byrom Bramwell.) The highest functions of the nervous system remain undeveloped, the child becoming idiotic: this seems tobe due to an arrested development ofcells of the cortex cerebri. The above combination of symptomsforms the condition known as may be either sporadic or former is generally associated withabsence or early atrophy of the thyroid ;the latter with goitrous endemic cretinism, according toMCarrison, there are in the Himalayanvalleys two types, the myxredematousand the nervous : the latter is presum-ably associated with changes in theparathyroids; whilst in the former theparathyroids are unaltered. This isthe type chiefly met with in Europe(fig. 19). The symptoms do not show them-selves until some little while afterbirth, in spite of the absence of a thyroid. The absence appears to becompensated, for a time at any rate, by autacoids conveyed fr
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