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In a most interesting lecture Brissaud shows the intimate relation between myxedema, endemic cretinism, sporadic cretinism, or myxedematous idiocy, and infantilism.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

It is characterized clinically by a myxedematous condition of the subcutaneous tissues and mental failure, and anatomically by atrophy of the thyroid gland.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)