Modern diagnosis and treatment of diseases of childern; a treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of infancy anf childhood . Miniaturebrain. 124 CONGENITAL MALF< JRMATIONS. locomotion and signs of mental degeneracy, the latter symp-Mentai toms gradually getting worse. The head is small compared withness. that of a normal child, but not exceptionally so. On the otherhand, in miniature brain, the mental deficiency predominateswhile the physical signs are comparatively slight and are apt toimprove as the child grows older (see page 570). Treatmentby means of massage, electricity and bath
Modern diagnosis and treatment of diseases of childern; a treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of infancy anf childhood . Miniaturebrain. 124 CONGENITAL MALF< JRMATIONS. locomotion and signs of mental degeneracy, the latter symp-Mentai toms gradually getting worse. The head is small compared withness. that of a normal child, but not exceptionally so. On the otherhand, in miniature brain, the mental deficiency predominateswhile the physical signs are comparatively slight and are apt toimprove as the child grows older (see page 570). Treatmentby means of massage, electricity and baths may improve theparalytic Fig. 30.—Microcephalia—miniature brain. (Sheffield.) CONGENITAL HYDROCEPHALUS.! Hydrocephalus is recognized chiefly by the increased size ofthe head. The enlargement is not always symmetrical on thehead, two sides. All are more or less plagiocephalic, but some arerounded and hrachycephalic and others dolichocephalic orscaphocephaly. Hence, the measurements of the head mustembrace not only the transverse diameter from one mastoidprocess across the vertex to the other, and the longitudinal See Acquired Hydrocephalus, p 516 CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS OF HEAD. 125 diameter from the glabellum across the vertex to the occipitaltuberosity, but particularly the circumference—with theglabellum and occipital tuberosity as centers—the measure-ment of which g-reatly exceeds that of the normal child (seepage 4). Due allowance, however, should be made for theincreased measurement observed in rickety projection of the
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