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England; (a) Pilkington informs us that in 
the little village of Duffield there existed no 
less than fifty goitrous families. Itis worthy 
of remark that the idiotism now introduced 
to the society exists upon a part of the same 
range of hills; a chain which commencing 
in Staffordshire, runs through Derbyshire, 
Yorkshire, Lancashire, Westmoreland, and 
Cumberland. 
The goitrous tumour never attains the 
same magnitude in England, which it does in 
some other countries. In the Vallais it is 
stated by Coxe (b) to be occasionally the 
size of a peck loaf, and by (c) Watkins as 
hanging half way downthe body. (d) Captain 
Turner in his embassy to Thibet, describes 
it as forming immediately under the chin, 
extending from ear to ear, and hanging from 
the throat down upon the breast. (e) Mars- 
den also describes it in Sumatra as hanging 
(a) View of the present state of Derbyshire, by J. Pilkington. 
p. 41.---1789. 
(b) Travels in Switzerland, &c. &c. by William Coxe. 4th 
Edit. Vol. 1. p. 430. 
(c) Travels through Switzerland, Italy, &c. &c. by Thomas 
Watkins. p, 38. 1787, &c. 
(d) Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in 
‘Thibet, by Captain Samuel Turner. p. 86.---4to, 
(e) History of Sumatra, &e. &c, by William Marsden. 3d Edit. 
p. 317. 
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