. A treatise on the diseases of infancy and childhood. the proportion even of 99 parts in 100. In addition to thiselement, there are traces of albumen, chloride of sodium, phos-phate and carbonate of soda, and osmazome. I have had an opportunity to witness only one post-mortemexamination in a case of congenital hydrocephalus in which theliquid was exterior to the brain. This case was under observationin the childrens service of Charity Hospital, in 1866. Full notesand measurements of the head were taken, which unfortuatelywere mislaid or lost. The infant had congenital syphilis, and had apalli
. A treatise on the diseases of infancy and childhood. the proportion even of 99 parts in 100. In addition to thiselement, there are traces of albumen, chloride of sodium, phos-phate and carbonate of soda, and osmazome. I have had an opportunity to witness only one post-mortemexamination in a case of congenital hydrocephalus in which theliquid was exterior to the brain. This case was under observationin the childrens service of Charity Hospital, in 1866. Full notesand measurements of the head were taken, which unfortuatelywere mislaid or lost. The infant had congenital syphilis, and had apallid, strumous appearance. The shape and relative size of the ANATOMICAL CHARACTERS. 115 head are seen in the accompanying figure, from a the whole head was enlarged, there was a relative excessof development in the part between and above the ears. The axisof the eyes was not at all changed, and the vision was good. Theappearance corresponded so closely with Wests description ofhypertrophy of the brain, that this was supposed to be the. anatomical state. Anti-syphilitic treatment was employed, andthe syphilitic eruptions had nearly disappeared, when diarrhoeasupervened, followed by death. At the autopsy, a quantity oftransparent or light straw-colored liquid, estimated at six or sevenounces, was found exterior to the brain, in the great cavity of thearachnoid, lying mostly over the superior surface of the was no excess of liquid in the ventricles, and the brain,though of good size, was not abnormally large, nor did it possessthe firmness which is present in true hypertrophy. All cases of congenital hydrocephalus may be embraced intwo groups, namely, that in which the liquid is in the interior ofthe brain, and that in which it lies exterior to the organ. Liquidprimarily in the arachnoidean cavity permeates the meshes ofthe pia mater, and lies in part underneath it, or this delicatemembrane may be ruptured. Four of the groups, therefore,described by Bres
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