It is distinctly associated with cretinism and its interrupted intellectual development.

And the disease must increase, for there is no attempt to check it.

To be a "thickneck" is no bar to marriage on either side.

The goitrous intermarry, and have children who are goitrous, or, rather, who will, if exposed to the same conditions as their parents, inevitably develop goitre.

Frequently the disease is intensified in the offspring into cretinism, and I can conceive of no sight more disgusting than that which so often met our view, of a goitrous mother suckling her imbecile child.