Nervous and mental diseases . al curve, and binau-ricular curve should be taken with a strip of lead, or, what is better,with the instrument devised by Luys (on the principle of the hatter^sconformateurs), and the curves projected on paper. Dolichocephalic heads, as a rule, have narrow, and brachycephalichave broad, faces. Something should here be said concerning prog-nathism, of which there are several forms. The best method of deter-mining it is to measure the angle made by a line drawn from the nasalroot to the junction of the inferior nasal spine and alveolar process(Fig. 277, iV^to .t) w^


Nervous and mental diseases . al curve, and binau-ricular curve should be taken with a strip of lead, or, what is better,with the instrument devised by Luys (on the principle of the hatter^sconformateurs), and the curves projected on paper. Dolichocephalic heads, as a rule, have narrow, and brachycephalichave broad, faces. Something should here be said concerning prog-nathism, of which there are several forms. The best method of deter-mining it is to measure the angle made by a line drawn from the nasalroot to the junction of the inferior nasal spine and alveolar process(Fig. 277, iV^to .t) w^ith a vertical line dropped from the nasal root toBrocas horizontal. It is found that every normal skull exhibits thissubnasal prognathism, but there is a wide variation in degree. Extra-ordinary prognathism, orthognathism, and opisthognathism—meaningextreme projection, straightness, or inclination backward of the sub-nasal line—are pathological. The empirical greatest height of the head is an approximate measure- ,v3Pd^^. BlNAUR/C(/J~AR-D/AM. f<^/Fig. 276.


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