Sporadic cretinism

Abstract

As usual a great many names have been applied to this disease, most of them giving prominence to certain symptoms or set of symptoms, to the exclusion of others less marked, hut equally characteristic of the condition.The name commonly adopted by English writers and which has been used as the title of this essay, Cretinism, makes no special reference to any particular symptoms,but has general reference to the whole set of symptoms which are met with in this disease, and on this account the most simple appellation is to be preferred.