CONGENITAL GOITER

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Congenital goiter was first described by Fodéré in 1796, at which time he called attention to the relation between parental and congenital thyroid enlargement. Two thousand years before that, cases of adult goiter had been reported and described; but, until 1796, no mention had been made of the infant's being born with the thyroid enlargement. In 1909, Thevenot reported 130 cases of congenital goiter, which included, in addition to his own, reports found after considerable searching through the literature. History does not reveal anything definite in regard to the relation of parentage to infant hypertrophy of the thyroid. Demme found thirty-seven goitrous parents in fifty-three cases of congenital goiter, in twenty-three of which the mothers alone were goitrous. Out of forty-three, Richard found twenty-two mothers and only one father with thyroid enlargement. In fourteen of my own cases, all the mothers were goitrous. Commandeur, even as late as 1908, expressed

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