. The diseases of infancy and childhood. Fio. 144.—Characteristic Hand ofChondrodystrophy. (Marie.). Fig. 145.—A, Normally Developed Boy,Age Eight Years. B, Typical Chon-drodystrophy. Age Eighteen Years(Marie.) These dwarfs are usually somewhat subnormal in their mental de-velopment but cannot be classed as defectives. They are good-natured 900 DISEASES OF THE BONES AND JOINTS often amusing, easily controlled, and frequently live to a great advancing years the figure assumes a very peculiar and charac-teristic appearance. The prominent hips, with the marked lordosis,shortened extremit
. The diseases of infancy and childhood. Fio. 144.—Characteristic Hand ofChondrodystrophy. (Marie.). Fig. 145.—A, Normally Developed Boy,Age Eight Years. B, Typical Chon-drodystrophy. Age Eighteen Years(Marie.) These dwarfs are usually somewhat subnormal in their mental de-velopment but cannot be classed as defectives. They are good-natured 900 DISEASES OF THE BONES AND JOINTS often amusing, easily controlled, and frequently live to a great advancing years the figure assumes a very peculiar and charac-teristic appearance. The prominent hips, with the marked lordosis,shortened extremities, and late bowing of the legs, present a strikingpicture (Fig. 145). The maximum height attained is often not morethan three and a half or four feet. Although while young of feeblemuscular power, later in life they often become very muscular. Whenadult life is reached the sexual powers are normal; if the womenbecome pregnant, Cesarian section is almost always required on accountof deformity of the pelvis. In infancy, chondrodystrophy is often confounded with rickets, hy-drocephalus, cretini
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