Report of Committee on Children to the Council of British Medical Assocation.

  • Warner, Francis, 1847-1926.
Date:
[1894]
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Credit: Report of Committee on Children to the Council of British Medical Assocation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lines, meeting at their extremities at an acute angle. Boys, 179; girls, 110. d 16. Palate arched or vaulted, thus deviating from the normal in the vertical plane with a high roof. Boys, 30; girls, 22. d 17. Palate Cleft.—A deformity which may affect the hard and the soft palate. Boys, 12 ; girls, 12. d 18. Other defective types of palate, such as the flat and the horse-shoe type. Boys, — ; girls, 1. e 19. Nasal bones, wide, sunken, or indented. The bony bridge of the nose may be thus ill-shapen and depressed as in the undeveloped condition of babyhood. Boys, 155 ; girls, 156. F 20. Growth small or stature short. Children short and small in build for their age. Boys, 275; girls, 335. g21. Other defects in development less, frequently observed. Boys, 251 ; girls, 213. G 22. Adipose Type.—Children flat and flabby, generally without spontaneity and slow in action. Boys, l; girls, 4. G 23. Cyanosis.—General blueness of face, lips, and ears, commonly dependent on defect of the heart. Boys, 2; girls, —. g 24. Dermoid Cyst.—Tumours at margin of orbit or near the temporal fossa. G 25. Face asymmetrical, one side being smaller than the other. Boys, 3; girls, 1. G 26. Face Small.—The face, including the upper and lower jaws, with their bones, may be small, independent of the size of the calvarium or brain case of the skull. Boys, 17; girls, 21. G 27. Features Coarse, heavy, flat, or lips thick. The fea- tures may be large and ill-proportioned. The separate features may not be individually malformed, but dispro- portionate one to another or to the size of the face; thus the nose may be small, the face large, round, flat, the features rising from the plane of the face. The lips may be thick and protuberant. Boys, 27; girls, 12. G 28. Forehead Dairy.—The forehead may be covered with downy hair ; the hairy scalp may join the outer extremities of the eyebrows. Boys, 19 ; girls, 4. G 29. Frontal Veins Large.—There may be well-marked veins in the middle of the forehead and across the bridge of the nose. Boys, 12; girls, 4. G 30. Hands Blue and Cold.—This was registered when it appeared to be a more or less permanent condition as a defect independent of weather. It may be seen in a paralysed limb. Boys, 13 ; girls, 47. g 31. Hare Lip.—Congenital fissure of the upper lip. Boys, 16 ; girls, 7. G 32. Ichthyosis.—Scaly skin on wrists and arms, or general on face, ears, and all parts. Boys, 5 ; girls, 2. G 33. Moles on face or eyebrows ; they may be pigmented, and may or may not be raised, and are often covered with hair. Boys, 1; girls, 6. G 34. Mouth Small.—Referring to measurement of the open- ing when the face is at rest. Boys, 50; girls, 38. g 35. Ncevus.—“Port wine stains” or patches on the face coloured by vascularity. Half the face may be thus affected, with affection of conjunctiva and mucous membrane of mouth. Boys, 4 ; girls, 2. o 36. Nose soft tissue, wide or superabundant. The skin and