. Manual of antenatal pathology and hygiene : the foetus. ) Fig. 51. for the gods Ptah and Bes were undoubtedly examples of it. Further,some of the historic dwarfs seem to have owed their dwarfism tothis form of foetal bone disease (Charcot et Eicher, Zes difformes clansVart, p. 15, 1899; H. Meige, Nouv. iconogr. de la Salpetriere, xiv. 371,1901). The disease is met with also in some of the lower animals, asis seen in dachshunds and bassets. Foetal Bone Disease (Type E). I do not regard type E, which is represented in Fig. 51, as afcetal disease properly so called, for it is undoubtedly terato


. Manual of antenatal pathology and hygiene : the foetus. ) Fig. 51. for the gods Ptah and Bes were undoubtedly examples of it. Further,some of the historic dwarfs seem to have owed their dwarfism tothis form of foetal bone disease (Charcot et Eicher, Zes difformes clansVart, p. 15, 1899; H. Meige, Nouv. iconogr. de la Salpetriere, xiv. 371,1901). The disease is met with also in some of the lower animals, asis seen in dachshunds and bassets. Foetal Bone Disease (Type E). I do not regard type E, which is represented in Fig. 51, as afcetal disease properly so called, for it is undoubtedly teratological 352 ANTENATAL PATHOLOCxY AND HYGIENE in its nature; but I describe it here in order to demonstrate thatit is a still earlier stage of arrest of limb-formation than that seenin Type D. In the specimen represented in Fig. 51, I found, ondissection of the limbs, that their skeleton was represented solelyby tiny pieces of cartilage having a certain resemblance in shapeto the bones of which they were the only traces. They wereembedded in a large quan


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