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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 



FIG. 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. 



