On contractions of the fingers (Dupuytren's and congenital contractions) and on "hammer-toe" . Case III. Deeply Depressed Cicatrix on Bight Sideof Neck, consequent upon Abscess with Necrosis of theLower Jaw.—H. S., aged 26, was sent to me also bythe late Dr. Sharps of Norwood, in October, general appearance was healthy. On the rightside of the neck, a little below and behind the angleof the jaw, was a deeply depressed cicatrix (shown inFig, 30), large enough at its orifice to admit the endof the little finger, and its apex reaching to the sur-face of the jaw-bone. The deep surface of
On contractions of the fingers (Dupuytren's and congenital contractions) and on "hammer-toe" . Case III. Deeply Depressed Cicatrix on Bight Sideof Neck, consequent upon Abscess with Necrosis of theLower Jaw.—H. S., aged 26, was sent to me also bythe late Dr. Sharps of Norwood, in October, general appearance was healthy. On the rightside of the neck, a little below and behind the angleof the jaw, was a deeply depressed cicatrix (shown inFig, 30), large enough at its orifice to admit the endof the little finger, and its apex reaching to the sur-face of the jaw-bone. The deep surface of the cica- ON THE OBLITERATION OF DEPRESSED CICATRICES. 145 trix was adlierent to the fascia, over tlie sterno-mastoidmuscle, dragging from its anterior border. The freeportion of the anterior border was formed by a pro-minent semikmar fold of the skin, three fourths of aninch in length, and rendered still more prominent insome movements of the head, in consequence of thefirm adhesions of the deep surface of the cicatrix. Onthe opposite side of the neck, a little below and behind Fig. Pig. 30.—Deeply depressed Cicatrix in Neck after Necrosis of lower jaw. the angle of the jaw, was also a large cicatrix, with itsdeep surface adherent to the fascia over the sterno-mastoid muscle, and having at its anterior free bordera semilunar fold of skin, but without any deep depres-sion. Its general appearance was that of a large, flat,and adherent cicatrix. There were also two smallcicatrices, one on each side of the chin, depressed andadherent to the 146 ON THE OBLITEEATION OP DEPBESSED CICATRICES. Of these cicatrices she gave the following years ago, being then twenty years of age, at thetime when the last molar, or wisdom-teeth, weremaking their appearance, considerable swelling andinflammation occurred about the angle of the jaw, onthe left side. The dentist could not force the mouthopen, and she was unable to take solid food for amonth. At the end of this ti
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