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I observed several of the natives of this district afflicted with goitre, and I was informed that cretinism was also prevalent, a fact which proves clearly the fallacy of the old doctrine that these complaints are attributable to snow-water, for all the water drunk by the inhabitants of the Terai rises in the Cheriagotty hills, on which snow rarely if ever falls.
In excess they produce such diseases as exophthalmic goiter, and goiter is concerned with the enlargement of the glands and surrounding tissues beyond anything like natural size. Then, too, a defect in the glands causes the disease known as myxedema in adults and cretinism in children. Most of all, the gland seems to tell on the germ plasm of the body, especially in women."
They are old long before the normal person has reached his prime. They die young, rarely living to be over thirty years old. The bones are completely ossified early, which is the cause of their small stature and their stupidity. The bones of the skull harden so early that the brain has no room to expand. There is no need of suffering, even in a mild degree, from the disease of cretinism.
But here belongs further the effect of poisons which the body itself produces: the toxic disturbance of uræmia or the coma in diabetes, or especially the grave disturbances resulting from the abnormal action of the thyroid gland, the source of cretinism.
If I had a ten-year old boy who was such a hopeless idiot I'd drown him as not worth honest grub, then seek a surgeon and make sure that I'd never again inflict the world with progeny cursed with cretinism. Wheat went up and silver down, as Mr.
This would be strongly corroborative of the correctness of the idea that malaria is the origin of goitre and cretinism, even if the experiment which has been tried at Interlacken, of building a hospital on the hills, above the influence of the infectious atmosphere in the valley, had not proved completely successful.
There are many signs that fall far short of the marks of cretinism, yet just as plain as that is to the visus eruditus, which one meets every hour of the day in every circle of society. Many of these are partial arrests of development.
The great annual Fair of Acapulco. The Village and Harbor of Acapulco. The War of Santa Anna and Alvarez. The Retreat. Traveling alone and unarmed. The Peregrino Pass. Quiricua and Cretinism. Chilpanzingo. An ill-clad Judge. Iguala. Alpayaca. Cuarnavaca. Let us now make a journey in another direction from Acapulco northward to the city of Mexico the route that the East India trade used to follow.
"Certainly, and you can think yourself happy, until gradually a contented cretinism steals over you, body and mind." "No, no!" said Ethel enthusiastically. "I shall do according to Swinburne "'Have therefore in my heart, and in my mouth, The sound of song that mingles North and South; And in my Soul the sense of all the Sea!"
Möbius, a German neurologist, came out boldly for the conception that a number of ailments could be due to qualitative and quantitative changes in the secretion of the thyroid, and that just as myxedema and cretinism were due to an insufficiency of the secretion, Parry's disease was to be ascribed to an excessive outpouring of it. The next steps were easy.
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