SPORADIC CRETINISM 



gland the length of the body was mostly below i meter. Siegert describes 

 a two-and-a-half-year-old child of 50 cm. length; v. Eiselsberg a thirteen-year- 

 old girl of 80 cm. length. In addition to the disturbance in the growth in 

 height are found delay in the appearance of the bone-nuclei, and in the clo- 



FIG. 17. X-ray picture of the hand of a normal ten-year-old girl. 



sures of the epiphyses (Hertoghe, v. Wyss, Kassowitz, Diderle, Siegert, and 

 others}. The original statement of Virchow that the calcification appears 

 prematurely was later found to be incorrect; the case investigated by 



