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Sporadic cretinism: a dangerous misnomer.
tently lead to the widely-held, and quite erroneous, opinion that the clinical presentation and neurological damage would be the same and, having the same etiology, could be prevented in the same manner. But this is not so. True cretinism can only be avoided by an adequate iodine intake through gestation. This simply requires substituting all household salt, and that available to domestic anima...
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patient, who was kindly sent to me by Dr David Menzies, is suffering from sporadic cretinism?in other words, from the infantile form of myxcedema. She was admitted to the Edinburgh Eoyal Infirmary on March 30th, 1893. At that time, though she did not look more than 2 or 2| years of age, her actual age was 16 years and 4 months. She measured only 29? inches in length, and weighed only 2 st. 5| l...
متن کاملFurther Notes of a Case of Sporadic Cretinism, Treated by Thyroid Feeding
At page 145 of last year's Transactions an account was given of a cretin (A. C.) who, under thyroid treatment, was rapidly losing many of the symptoms and signs characteristic of his disease. At the time the case was published he had been treated for only four months, and many inquiries have been received as to whether the improvement then shown still continues and how far it has gone. It is th...
متن کاملCretinism revisited.
Endemic cretinism includes two syndromes: a more common neurological disorder with brain damage, deaf mutism, squint and spastic paresis of the legs and a less common syndrome of severe hypothyroidism, growth retardation and less severe mental defect. Both conditions are due to dietary iodine deficiency and can be prevented by correction of iodine deficiency before pregnancy. Endemic cretinism ...
متن کاملExperimental Cretinism
Findly (1908) and Mellanby (1919) clearly demonstrated that rickets occurred in young animals fed on a diet containing an insufficient amount of certain substances now known as the “antirachitic vitamine.” As a result of this, the British Medical Research Committee announced that rickets is a deficiency disease due to a lack in the diet of an anti-rachitic factor. For literature up to 1923, cov...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
سال: 1896
ISSN: 0022-3018
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-189612000-00007