Nervous and mental diseases / by Archibald Church and Frederick Peterson.

  • Church, Archibald, 1861-1952.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Nervous and mental diseases / by Archibald Church and Frederick Peterson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Binder noted degenerate ears in 33 persons outside of institutions, supposed to be normal individuals. Inquiring closely into their his- tories, he discovered that 7 of them had insane parents, brethren, or children; in 19 there were decided psychic abnormalities, and only 7 Fig. 294.—Broad, baud-like helix ; no ant- helix ; no lobule; excessive size of fossa cym- bae. Fig. 295.—Excessive length of ear; fusion and distortion of helix, anthelix, antitragus, and lobule. Fig. 296.—Triplication of crura furcata; mal- formed helix and antitragus; absent lobule. Fig. 297.—Fissure in anthelix; slight Darwin tubercle; slight antitragus. Fig. 298.—No crus superius ; no anthelix; small fossa con- chae; few details of ear. Fig. 299. —No lobule; no fossa conchae; shallow fossa seaphoidea; fusion of helix, anthelix, and antitragus ; a type of Stahl ear, No. 3. Fig. 800.—Prominent anthe- lix ; maldevelopiMl helix; al>- sence of lobule; diminution of the concha; Wildermuth ear. No. 1. were flpparontly normal ]>orsons. As regards heredity, it is very com- mon for children to inherit ears with the identical characteristics of those of one or the other parent, but, on the other hand, it is not uncom- mon for the ears of the children to be quite different. 46