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• n  severe hypothyroidism resulting in physical and mental stunting

• And the scientists are closing in on other disorders suspected of being transmitted by genes, the giant molecules of heredity: diabetes, gout, some forms of mongolism, cretinism .
• Shortages of vitamin A, iron and iodine in India and Bangladesh are increasing the incidenceespecially among the youngof goiter, blindness and cretinism.
• With such intellectual cretinism and moral depravity ruling this world, it is a bleak future we face.

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• Gerald Durrell in Al-Ahram Weekly
  In December 1936, Durrell wrote to the American writer Henry Miller about this book: "Have planned the heraldic book, but lack reference books on psychology, the pathology of childhood, cretinism, genius, etc. LET US KILL THE LITERARY MEN ONCE AND...