. The mental affections of children : idiocy, imbecility and insanity. J. !>., Hydrocephalic Imbecile. XII. Proltle and Portrait of J. I H2-143 HYDROCEPHALIC IDIOCY I 43 The pressure is greater where, from closure of the sutures,the walls of the cranium are incapable of expansion. Treatment. I am not aware that in the rare instances of arrest inchronic hydrocephales this fortunate event can be traced toany special treatment or known condition. Hydrocephalusis the despair of physicians. Bourncville recommends tightbandaging of the shaved head for alternate weeks, withmercurial inuncti
. The mental affections of children : idiocy, imbecility and insanity. J. !>., Hydrocephalic Imbecile. XII. Proltle and Portrait of J. I H2-143 HYDROCEPHALIC IDIOCY I 43 The pressure is greater where, from closure of the sutures,the walls of the cranium are incapable of expansion. Treatment. I am not aware that in the rare instances of arrest inchronic hydrocephales this fortunate event can be traced toany special treatment or known condition. Hydrocephalusis the despair of physicians. Bourncville recommends tightbandaging of the shaved head for alternate weeks, withmercurial inunctions, small doses of calomel every three days,and energetic blistering of the scalp once a month. Thismedication is combined with well-planned exercise, bodilvand mental, massage of the limbs, and saline baths. Heclaims a signal success in at least one case, a full report ofwhich will be found in the monograph already cited. CHAPTER VIIIECLAMPSIC IDIOCY. Nature and Symptoms. THOUGH eclampsia may appear in children of health) parents,there is no doubt a predisposition, hereditary in some families,to take fits unde
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