. Diseases of infancy and childhood . Cranial, Thoracic, and Abdominal Type of Rickets. Fig. 85.—Hydreneephaloid (Spurious Hydrocephalus). Infant 8months old. Bottle-fed. SuflFering with cholera infantum. Severe nervousand toxic symptoms. Fig. 86.—Same Child Two Years Later. Note the square head, thefrontal protuberance. Also the Harrison groove and the pendulous belly.(Original.) in the femur, the tibia, the radius, the ulna, and the ribs. When ossifica-tion is retarded during rickets, as, for example, in the parieto-occipitalregion, the bone is frequently so thin that it yields to pressure;

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. Diseases of infancy and childhood . Cranial, Thoracic, and Abdominal Type of Rickets. Fig. 85.—Hydreneephaloid (Spurious Hydrocephalus). Infant 8months old. Bottle-fed. SuflFering with cholera infantum. Severe nervousand toxic symptoms. Fig. 86.—Same Child Two Years Later. Note the square head, thefrontal protuberance. Also the Harrison groove and the pendulous belly.(Original.) in the femur, the tibia, the radius, the ulna, and the ribs. When ossifica-tion is retarded during rickets, as, for example, in the parieto-occipitalregion, the bone is frequently so thin that it yields to pressure; this iscalled craniotabes. The fontanels are not closed until very late, owing to this delayedossification. The frontal and parietal protuberances are very much en-larged, due to exaggerated proliferation of the periosteum, so that the H. PLATE XVIII

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