on the basis of his own observations on autoptic specimens he suggested that the main cause of cretinism was brain damage due to impeded blood circulation by the neck swelling , and invited the pathologists of the po and aosta valleys to send him `` '' il capo ed il collo ( the head and the neck ) '' '' of these goitrous idiots for a control .
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