Obese baby (1904) - Public domain book illustration

8-month-old baby weighing 36 pounds
Identifier: sajoussanalytica01sajouoft (find matches)
Title: Sajous's analytical cyclopædia of practical medicine
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Sajous, Charles Euchariste de Médicis, 1852-1929
Subjects: Medicine Medicine -- Practice
Publisher: Philadelphia : F.A. Davis Co.
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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rried to the normal period, they havelittle or no milk. Children born ofsuch mothers make up the largestnumber, if not all. the cases of cretin-ism, rickets, harelip, cleft palate, andother malformations usually ascribed ANIMAL EXTRACTS (SAJOUS). 701 to hereditary influence. We are deal-ing simply with deficiency of the iodinein organic combination which thethyroparathyroid glands supply to theorganism to sustain their intrinsicmetabolism, i.e., their vital activity. Hertoghe has urged the importanceof the maternal thyroid on the develop-ment of the fetus, hypothyroidia from fault be added tuberculosis, hereditarysyphilis, alcoholism, inanition, saturn-ism, or diabetes, the child will show un-doubted signs of these taints, and willprobably be a myxedematous cretin,with signs of rickets and achondro-plasia, and to this cause may be assignedsuch malformations as harelip, cleftpalate, bony deformities, hypospadias,or undescended testicle. Should thematernal taint be but slight, the child
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Adipositas (8 months old). Weighs 36 pounds. (Sheffield.) any cause favoring cretinism in thechild. It also promotes sterility, theuse of thyroid gland being often fol-lowed by pregnancy. Hypothyroidia is often the cause ofobesity in children, as well as in adults(see annexed cuts), and of the coldfeet and hands and other phenomenaobserved in fat, pasty children. If the mother has at her disposal suf-ficient store of thyroid secretion, thechild does well; but if there is thyroidinsufficiency, and especially if to this will merely be very backward, which isa matter of small amount in boys, andif after a time righted by the thyroidequilibrium being established; but ingirls menstruation is late in being estab-lished; uterine retroflexion is frequent;the chest is undeveloped. The author has often seen womenHearing 40 years of age who are fatand whose menstrual flow is excessivetake thyroid extract in order to reducetheir obesity. He has often seen themenstrual flow in these women becomemo