. The diseases of children : medical and surgical. large. No thyroid gland can be felt; the supraclavicular. Fig. 119.—^Walter P., aged 7 years. pads are present. He has caries of the ethmoid bone and a chronic discharge of pus fromthe left eye. He remained in hospital ten months, during which time his left e)eball wasexcised on account of suppuration ; he was treated for awhile with subcutaneous injectionsof a glycerine extract of sheeps thyroid, but the} had to be omitted from time to time onaccount of subcutaneous abscesses. He was discharged improved. He was lost sight offor two years, whe
. The diseases of children : medical and surgical. large. No thyroid gland can be felt; the supraclavicular. Fig. 119.—^Walter P., aged 7 years. pads are present. He has caries of the ethmoid bone and a chronic discharge of pus fromthe left eye. He remained in hospital ten months, during which time his left e)eball wasexcised on account of suppuration ; he was treated for awhile with subcutaneous injectionsof a glycerine extract of sheeps thyroid, but the} had to be omitted from time to time onaccount of subcutaneous abscesses. He was discharged improved. He was lost sight offor two years, when he came under the care of Mr. W. Barker Bale in the StockportWorkhouse (see fig. 119) ; he was treated with thyroid and greatly improved (see fig. 120).We are indebted to Mr. Bale for the photographs. Cretinoid Idiocy 563 All degrees of severity may be met with in congenital myxcedema, andthe slighter cases aie very apt to be overlooked. In the mild cases theremaybe little elseto note except that the child or the young adult is a dwarf;probably also there is mental dulness and backwardness. In excep
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