264 EVOLUTION AND DISEASE. 
examination of the models and figures of this god 
preserved in the Egyptian galleries of the British 
Museum shows, that in some of the figures Ptah is 
represented as a big-bellied, squat divinity, with short 
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Fic. 129.—The Egyptian God Ptah. 
limbs, not unlike a cretin (fig. 129), in others he is 
represented as of noble figure, the type of lordly bear- 
ing and majesty. The notion that the dwarf models of 
Ptah represent cretins is very speculative and improb- 
able. 
