The Practitioner . conds, and the patient recovered consciousnesswithout falling ft-oni her chair. The parents reported that she had caught cold a month ortwo pre\iously, and had since been noticed to be deaf and amouth-breather. She was also said to be \ex\ restless in bed ;talking in her sleep, and throwing off the clothes, but there wasno enuresis. As is well shown in her photograph, the child had a markedadenoid facies (Fig. i). She was a constant mouth-breather;the root of the nose was verj- broad ; and the inner fold ofeach upper eyelid, which by some is thought to be accentuatedwith ade
The Practitioner . conds, and the patient recovered consciousnesswithout falling ft-oni her chair. The parents reported that she had caught cold a month ortwo pre\iously, and had since been noticed to be deaf and amouth-breather. She was also said to be \ex\ restless in bed ;talking in her sleep, and throwing off the clothes, but there wasno enuresis. As is well shown in her photograph, the child had a markedadenoid facies (Fig. i). She was a constant mouth-breather;the root of the nose was verj- broad ; and the inner fold ofeach upper eyelid, which by some is thought to be accentuatedwith adenoids, was well marked. She was said to have a drj-nose, and anteriorl)* the nostrils appeared normal. The molarteeth had not fallen, but the pallate appeared a little arched. The child was deaf, so that whispered speech was heardonly at a distance of two yards. The membrane tympaniwere very translucent, only slightly retracted, and the pinkinjection of the inner tympanic wall was easily visible, shining Pi atk Fig. I. Photograph in 189S. Child, aged 6, affected icilh iias^phavyngeal adcnoidii, and niihject to epilepsy since the age of ^.
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