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by publishing descriptions of undoubted examples. One 
of Fagge’s specimens is drawn in fig. 127, for compari- 
son with the endemic cretin on the opposite page. This 
boy is sixteen years and a half old, rather less than 
a metre in height, and could understand a good deal 
of what was said to him, ask for what he wanted, and 
the parents could understand what he said. 
Fic. 127.—A sporadic English Cretin, rather less than a 
metre in height, and sixteen years of age. (After Hilton 
Fagge.) 
In subsequent investigations Hilton Fagge showed 
that, contrary to what he had originally stated, the 
thyroid body in some of these children was abnormally 
large. 
Since the attention of medical men has been drawn 
