The obstetric memoirs and contributions of James YSimpson; . to form a correct ideaof it without the drawings. Its skin (Fig. 41)fissured in different parts, was hard and thick-ened generally; it was of a yellow color, andcovered with the epidermis; in the fissures itwas softer, and somewhat of a bloody appear-ance. The head, which was almost round, pre-sented very open sutures, and a very largeanterior fontanelle. It was covered with thin,short, silky hair, and the scalp was intersectedby numerous fissures, one of them runningfrom the left superior eyelid over the os frontis,being twelve mill
The obstetric memoirs and contributions of James YSimpson; . to form a correct ideaof it without the drawings. Its skin (Fig. 41)fissured in different parts, was hard and thick-ened generally; it was of a yellow color, andcovered with the epidermis; in the fissures itwas softer, and somewhat of a bloody appear-ance. The head, which was almost round, pre-sented very open sutures, and a very largeanterior fontanelle. It was covered with thin,short, silky hair, and the scalp was intersectedby numerous fissures, one of them runningfrom the left superior eyelid over the os frontis,being twelve millimetres in breadth. Anotherwas confined to the right superior eyelid, andhere also there was a very large fissure at theexternal angle of the eyelids, which ran in a direction backwards. The forehead was inclined backwards; the ears were quite con- J From Edin. Monthly Journal of Med. Science, July, 1844, p. 545. 2 The case has since been published by Vrolik, in his Tabulae ad illustrandum Embryc-genesin Hominis, &c, Amsterdam, 1849, Tab. xcii.—(Ed.). ICHTHYOSIS INTRA-UTEMNA. 357 cealed by the skin, and only to be seen in their outline very imper-fectly ; the eyebrows were entirely absent; instead of closed eye-lids, there were two bloody tumors formed by the interior liningmembrane of the eyelids, or by the ectropia of the conjunctiva,behind which the eyeballs were deeply concealed in the orbits; therewere but few cilia on the eyelids, and the extroversion of the con-junctiva was less in the under than in the upper eyelids. Fig. 42.
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