. Manual of antenatal pathology and hygiene : the foetus. the back, chest, and scalp; the thinnest are on the hands andfeet and round the anus ; their margins are usually bevelled off andtheir surface is commonly smooth, but sometimes shows small deepest cracks or fissures are generally found on the scalp in theneighbourhood of the greatly deformed ears; some of them arebridged over by a thin, transparent pellicle, but this is often hands and feet are greatly thickened and malformed; the digitsresemble birds claws (onychogryphosis), are sometimes united toeach other, and
. Manual of antenatal pathology and hygiene : the foetus. the back, chest, and scalp; the thinnest are on the hands andfeet and round the anus ; their margins are usually bevelled off andtheir surface is commonly smooth, but sometimes shows small deepest cracks or fissures are generally found on the scalp in theneighbourhood of the greatly deformed ears; some of them arebridged over by a thin, transparent pellicle, but this is often hands and feet are greatly thickened and malformed; the digitsresemble birds claws (onychogryphosis), are sometimes united toeach other, and are sometimes absent. The dissectional appearancesof the internal organs would appear to be unimportant; congestionseems to have been fairly constant, and the cause of death wasgenerally found in a broncho-pneumonia or pulmonary oedema. In1901, Drs. A. S. Daniel and L. Cordes kindly sent me a photographof a very typical case reported by them {Journ. Amer. Med. Assoc.,XXXV. 1081, 1900). In this case the kidneys showed the lesion of FOETAL ICHTHYOSIS 309. Fig. 35.—Straubes Case of Foetal Ichthyosis. 310 ANTENATAL PATHOLOGY AND HYGIENE acute exudative nephritis; the child had died suddenly twenty-sevenhours after birth. The microscopical appearances of the skin (Figs. 37, 38) have been
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