. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. Fig. -Skull dug up in the Vicinity of the Church of St. Etienne duMont. (After Jacquart.) learned papers having been written by anthropologistsupon this subject. M. Rivero and M. Tschudi, in the Antiquites Peruviennes, published in 1851, gave draw-ings showing the bone which Anoutchune, after makingstudies of the skulls in various museums, announced wasto be found in twenty per cent, of the Peruvian skulls.(Fig. 4621.) The name, the bone of the Incas, wasg
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. Fig. -Skull dug up in the Vicinity of the Church of St. Etienne duMont. (After Jacquart.) learned papers having been written by anthropologistsupon this subject. M. Rivero and M. Tschudi, in the Antiquites Peruviennes, published in 1851, gave draw-ings showing the bone which Anoutchune, after makingstudies of the skulls in various museums, announced wasto be found in twenty per cent, of the Peruvian skulls.(Fig. 4621.) The name, the bone of the Incas, wasgiven to it, though unjustly, Jacquart thinks, who shows. Fig. 4020.—Skull of a Negress, of Sahara. (After Jacquart.) in an elaborate paper that it is found frequently in otherraces. The question among savants has arisen as towhether this is a mere anomaly, or a reversal to a lowertype, since the interparietal bone occurs in rodents, rumi-nants, dogs, and cats. The upper portion of the occipitalbom- develops from four osseous centres, which are sepa-rate in early total life, but gradually coalesce. The later-al union is accomplished first, and afterward the two seg- ments above and below unite ; when union of these twolatter fails to take place, the interparietal bone is recent line of union shows very well in the skull ofthe new-born. Cuvier, Milne-Edwards, Geoffroy , and the other writers already mentioned, insistthat a distinction should be made between the interpar-ietal bone and the large fragments occurring in the pos-terior fontanelle, which are the true Wormian , in his researches, made the foll
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