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Title: Modern diagnosis and treatment of diseases of childern; a treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of infancy anf childhood
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Sheffield, Herman Bernard, 1871- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Children Children
Publisher: Philadelphia, F. A. Davis company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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. Physical Stigmata of Degeneration.The cranium l a hydrocephalic1 ( sec Fig. 185) is large, ball- nyd°- 1 ^ o & cephalic— shaped, and its circumference widest at the temples. It contrasts ^ars°- softstrongly with the small, delicate face. The fontanelles areseparated, the eyebrows are scarcely indicated, and the mouthand nose arc small. In microcephalus2 (see Fig. 186) the head1 See page 124. ~ See page 123. 576 MENTAL DISEASES. i i phalic- small iuad. greatly resembles that of an animal. pr\ prominent blue veins. The nose is often saddle-bossed ; - Hutchinson shaped. The upper central incisors are notched. The lips are usually thick and the angles of the mouth not rarely marked m ise head are Th
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Fig. 186.—Microcephalic Idiot. Fig. 187.—Amaurotic Idiot. States Idioticcs(peculiar attitude assumed by idiots in sitting posture ). ( Sheffield.) Mongolian- Dy rhagades. The cranium of the Mongolian ( Figs. 188, 189) idiot short, pug- ° o ° nose; js somewhat smaller than normal, rounded, with the occiput prominent 1 bones runnmg quite parallel with the plane of the face. The face issunken, the nose short and broad and bound laterally towardthe eyes by distinct vertical folds. The cheek bones are prom-inent, and the tongue protrudes. Xo characteristic physicalsigns of degeneration are apparent on the cranium of the amau-rotic idiot1 (see Fig. 187), except that, owing to the general atonybackward. 0f the musculature, the patient is unable to hold up his head.1 See page 583. Amaurotic — head thrown forward or IDIOCY. The face is delicate. The skull of the cretin1 (see Fig. 190) is ggnfc:rather larger than normal, sparsely covered by thin, lusterless j?ongudlnshair, and set upon

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