Dr. Reeve’s Account of Cretinism. ng 
I might perhaps have insisted more upon the analogy be- 
tween cretinism and rickets, for there is a remarkable coinci- 
dence in the literary history of these two diseases, as well as 
in many other points. Glisson first described rickets, as it 
appeared in this country, in the middle of the seventeenth 
century, about the same time that Plater mentions cretinism. 
The origin of both names is equally obscure ; and since some 
of the remote causes are now discovered, it is to be hoped the 
diseases themselves will gradually disappear, and in some 
happier age be known only by description. 
