. Babyhood . ssful such operations generally arein removing imperfections of speech ? Clyde, O. SUBSCRIBER. 1. The causes are somewhat obscure. Amongthose that are known are heredity, and insuffi-cient meat-diet and phosphate of lime on thepart of the mother during pregnancy. Someauthors go so far as to think the latter the chiefcause. 2. They cannot nurse, or very rarely. Verylarge, flat rubber nipples have been made so asto fill up the roof of the mouth and make suc-tion possible. They are worth trying, if theycan be obtained. They are not usually kept forsale. 3. By the end of the second ye
. Babyhood . ssful such operations generally arein removing imperfections of speech ? Clyde, O. SUBSCRIBER. 1. The causes are somewhat obscure. Amongthose that are known are heredity, and insuffi-cient meat-diet and phosphate of lime on thepart of the mother during pregnancy. Someauthors go so far as to think the latter the chiefcause. 2. They cannot nurse, or very rarely. Verylarge, flat rubber nipples have been made so asto fill up the roof of the mouth and make suc-tion possible. They are worth trying, if theycan be obtained. They are not usually kept forsale. 3. By the end of the second year in ordinarycases. Some surgeons operate earlier. BAB YHOOD. 197 4. Careful tiaining of the voice is necessaryto overcome certain difficulties of speech thatsometimes exist. Cleft palate varies very greatly in the accompanying diagram A A represents thehard palate, B B the soft palate, including the veilor hanging palate, which ends at C, the line C E stands for the central line of the 7. c palate, along which these arrests of developmentoccur. They vary from a simple cleft of thenoula (dotted lines to D), which is of hardly anymoment, to defects of soft and hard palates reach-ing quite to the front teeth, or even, in aggravatedcases, through the jaw and lip (dotted lines to E),making the severer cases of harelip in addition tothe cleft palate. The nature of these peculiardefects—, their essential dependence uponarrest in the ordinary process of development—isquite an interesting matter, but to discuss thetopic properly would take us beyond the limitsof a problem. Suppurating Ear. To the Editor of Babyhood: My boy is nearly thirteen months old ; he has alwaysbeen well and very strong, walking alone since elevenmonths old ; has eight teeth, and four double oneswell along, and is weaned in the daytime. Mytrouble is this : When about five months old, aboutthe time his first teeth commenced coming, matterbegan to run from his left ear. I consulted a do
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