the Human Kind and other Animals. 27? 



similar swellings, from this or other brooks. But Mr. 



James Geddis has lately assured me, that 



both sheep and horned cattle are subject to this disease. 

 * It is apt,' he says, ' to be fatal to calves and lambs.' 

 ' In Manlius,' says the same gentleman, ' I have lately 

 seen a sheep with a very large neck. She was fatting 

 for the butcher, as she had always lost her lambs by 

 this disorder*." 



Since the publication of my memoir, I have heard of 

 eases of goitre in other animals, besides those already 

 mentioned, in the United- States. In particular, I am 

 assured, that a number of Goats are affected with such 

 tumours, in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania, 

 where the disease prevails, to a considerable degree, 

 among the human inhabitants. 



It is not a new observation, that other animals, be- 

 sides the human kind, are afflicted with the disease of 

 goitre. Mr. Coxe informs us, that in some parts of 

 Switzerland, even the dogs are subject to " goitrous 

 tumours," as he calls themf. 



After all, these facts do not prove, that sheep, goats, 

 dogs, and other mammalia, are subject to cretinism. 

 But they certainly render it probable, that these animals 



* A Memoir concerning the Disease of Goitre, as it prevails in 

 different parts of North-America. Pages 12, 13, 14 Philadel- 

 phia: 1800. 8vo. 



t Travels in Switzerland, in a Series of Letters to William Mel- 

 moth, Esq. Vol. 1. p. 349. 



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