. The Dental cosmos. earsto have in early life, and thus bestimulated to unusual or at least restoredactivity by the change in the respiratoryapparatus which has been accomplished ;or the result may be attributed to some found this small glandular strand, vary-ing from 1 to 7 mm. in length, situatedin the mucous membrane just behindthe alse of the vomer, with regularity ina systematic study of fifty-one humansubjects, and designated it the hypo-physis pharyngeal If it can be demon- BROWN.—[JPPEB MAXILLARY CONTRACTION AND EXPANSION*. 147 strated that the pharyngeal hypophysisshares or ean be ma


. The Dental cosmos. earsto have in early life, and thus bestimulated to unusual or at least restoredactivity by the change in the respiratoryapparatus which has been accomplished ;or the result may be attributed to some found this small glandular strand, vary-ing from 1 to 7 mm. in length, situatedin the mucous membrane just behindthe alse of the vomer, with regularity ina systematic study of fifty-one humansubjects, and designated it the hypo-physis pharyngeal If it can be demon- BROWN.—[JPPEB MAXILLARY CONTRACTION AND EXPANSION*. 147 strated that the pharyngeal hypophysisshares or ean be made to substitute forthe pituitary activities under either nor-mal or abnormal conditions, then muchwhich is now clinically demonstrable incases of maxillary contraction and their nervous conditions sometimes occurs inthe course of this treatment of thesepatients would then be more satisfactor-ily accounted for than by any resultwhich might occur subsequent to changesin bone development, even if these eon hi Fig. 11. Skiagram of the head of a young man twenty years old which shows an enlarged frontalsinus and a very large sella turcica. In this case there was evidence of a tendency toacromegaly noticeable in the very much enlarged lower jaw, which was prognathous,with the lower teeth extending three-eighths of an inch beyond the upper. He had alsothe characteristic broad fleshy nose and thick lips, chubby hands, and square-shapedfinger-tips described by dishing in cases of hypopituitarism. Extreme sensitiveness ofhis eyes threatened loss of vision, although examinations by oculists revealed no localcondition to account for this affection. These, together with excessive nervousness,had obliged him to give up school. Almost immediately following spreading of tin-upper arch and wide separation of the central incisors, which indicated maxillary sepa-ration, his nervousness and the eye condition began to improve. In a short time hewas able to continue and has since finished his col


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