The large head
droops listlessly on the breast; the abdomen is like a bag." The
cretin is generally deaf and dumb, or only able to give a hoarse
cry. He is indifferent to heat and cold, and even to the most
revolting odors. The general opinion has always been that the
sexual desire and genital organs are fully developed.
A quotation under our observation credits Colonel Sykes with the
following statistics of cretinism, which show how in some
locations it may be a decided factor of population. In December,
1845, in a population of 2,558,349 souls (the locality not
mentioned), there were 18,462 people with simple goiter. Of the
cretins without goiter there were 2089. Of cretins with goiter
there were 3909; and cretins in which goiter was not stated 962,
making a total of 6960. Of these 2185 had mere animal instincts;
3531 possessed very small intellectual faculties; 196 were almost
without any; 1048 not classified. Of this number 2483 were born
of healthy and sane fathers; 2285 from healthy mothers; 961 from
goitrous fathers; 1267 from goitrous mothers; 49 from cretin
fathers; 41 from cretin mothers; 106 from cretin fathers with
goiter; 66 from cretin mothers with goiter; 438 fathers and 405
mothers were not specified.
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