. The Edinburgh practice of physic, surgery, and midwifery : preceded by an abstract of the theory of medicine, and the nosology of Dr. Cullen and including upwards of six hundred authentic formulae from the books of St. Bartholmews, St. George's St. Thomas's, Guy's, and other hospitals in London, and from the lectures and writings of the most eminent public teachers ; with twenty quarto plates. ndon, defcribes the following cafe ofmalformation: The bones of the head, above the orbits, ap-peared almofl entirely deficient; there were fome fmall portionsof the ofTa frontis loofe and moveable abo
. The Edinburgh practice of physic, surgery, and midwifery : preceded by an abstract of the theory of medicine, and the nosology of Dr. Cullen and including upwards of six hundred authentic formulae from the books of St. Bartholmews, St. George's St. Thomas's, Guy's, and other hospitals in London, and from the lectures and writings of the most eminent public teachers ; with twenty quarto plates. ndon, defcribes the following cafe ofmalformation: The bones of the head, above the orbits, ap-peared almofl entirely deficient; there were fome fmall portionsof the ofTa frontis loofe and moveable about the globes of the eyes,which latter were concealed by the prefiure upon the eyelids : thecutis, on the right fide, over the temple and ear, was prefled out-ward in the form of a tumor. The mouth was flretched open,by the centre of the* upper lip being drawn upward to a great ex-tent, which expofed the upper gums; thefe, as well as the lip,formed a fort of angle in that part of the face where the nofe isufually fituated : there was in fact no nofe, but the two noflrilsopened near the internal angles of the eyes on each fide; that onthe left fide appeared in the extremity of a projection, fomewhatJefembling a probofcis; that on the right, formed a longer andanore incurvated orifice, with its edges in fome degree projectingfrom an irregular furface. From this noftril was continued to the. MONSTERS. G} angle of the upper lip, a prominent ridge, conftituted by a ftretch-ing of the cutis, rather than any bony fubftance refembling the oflanafi. The fummit of the cranium being entirely deficient, therewas not fufficient fpace for containing the whole of the want of room was fupplied by a large fpherical facculuscovered by the common cutis, fituated principally over the lefteye, and occupying the place of the left os frontis. It was aboutthe fize of a goofes egg, constituting an hernia cerebri. Thistumor was very loft, falling in whatever direction the head wasplaced, and
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