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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. 



FIG. 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 



