Handbook of insanity for practitioners and students . Fig. 8.—(After Merkel.) less, but its breadth is more developed. The base of thefemale skull is narrower and shorter. The most strik-ing peculiarity of the female skull, as seen in the livingsubject in profile, is the line of the upper curvature; the VARIATIONS IN THE SKULL. 139 flattening of the parietal region passes quite suddenly onthe one side into the vertical frontal line, on the other sideinto the sloping line of the occiput, so that more or less an-gular curves develop on both sides. In the male skull. Fig. 9.—(After Merkel.) this
Handbook of insanity for practitioners and students . Fig. 8.—(After Merkel.) less, but its breadth is more developed. The base of thefemale skull is narrower and shorter. The most strik-ing peculiarity of the female skull, as seen in the livingsubject in profile, is the line of the upper curvature; the VARIATIONS IN THE SKULL. 139 flattening of the parietal region passes quite suddenly onthe one side into the vertical frontal line, on the other sideinto the sloping line of the occiput, so that more or less an-gular curves develop on both sides. In the male skull. Fig. 9.—(After Merkel.) this line is arched; seen from the front, it is also distin-guished by the greater prominence of the parietal emi-nences, so that it becomes angular compared with therounded female skull. In the different races we find numerous variations inthe skull, which cannot be utilized in the diagnosis ofpsychoses because they are often observed in the sane;for example, large uniformly developed skulls, the other hand small skulls, microcephalus, generally re-veal an abnormal formation of the brain. Among otherforms I will call attention to the very frequent saddle head(Fig. 10), in which a saddle-shaped depression occupies thesite of the large fontanelle. The foetal brain does not fill the skull completely, a 140 HANDBOOK OF INSANITY. considerable space between the two being filled withfluid. In its further growth the brain changes its posi-tion in relation to the skull because the hemispheresgrow mainly from in front backward. The brain pro-bably contin
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