The etiology of osseous deformities of the head, face, jaws and teeth . in theancient Indians of this country and the negroes and others, asobserved by Allen, others and myself, the percentage of itsoccurrence is markedly decreased. Instability of tissue-building is to be expected in neuroticsand degenerates. It is easy to see how with such an unstablebone tissue to build upon the mucous membrane of the nosecan take on atrophy, hypertrophy and adenoid growths,resulting in mouth-breathing. It seems to be the accepted opinion of physicians at the 2T8 ETIOLOGY OF OSSEOUS DEFORMITIES OF present ti
The etiology of osseous deformities of the head, face, jaws and teeth . in theancient Indians of this country and the negroes and others, asobserved by Allen, others and myself, the percentage of itsoccurrence is markedly decreased. Instability of tissue-building is to be expected in neuroticsand degenerates. It is easy to see how with such an unstablebone tissue to build upon the mucous membrane of the nosecan take on atrophy, hypertrophy and adenoid growths,resulting in mouth-breathing. It seems to be the accepted opinion of physicians at the 2T8 ETIOLOGY OF OSSEOUS DEFORMITIES OF present time that consumption is not an inherited disease,but that the patient inherits or acquires a weak constitution,and at certain periods, when the system is in proper con-dition, the bacilli find a habitat in the lungs and diseaseresults. The human mouth is known to contain bacteria of almostevery variety, and the author has taught students for the pastten years that it was his opinion that the mouth becomes thenidus for the accumulation of germs, and that when the sys-. Fig. 66. tem becomes in the proper condition, these germs bring onnot only tuberculosis, but pneumonia and affections of thethroat, including lesions ranging all the way from simple sorethroat to the most malignant form of diphtheria, and it seemsto the author that these conditions may be avoided, to a cer-tain extent, by keeping the mouth in a healthy who are susceptible to these diseases, but more par-ticularl}^ consumption, are those who have inherited weakconstitutions, such as neurotics and degenerates. Somaticsigns are quite noticeable in most of these cases, and by earlyrecognition, proper treatment with change of climate will, in THE HEAD, FACE, JAWS AND TEETH 279 most cases, prolong life for many years. These signs havealready been spoken of indirectly, but as they have a directbearing upon deformity of the nose, it will not be out of placeto call the attention of the reader to some of th
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