Observations on hydrocephalus chronicus / by Alexander Monro, jun.

  • Monro, Alexander, 1773-1859.
Date:
1803
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Credit: Observations on hydrocephalus chronicus / by Alexander Monro, jun. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    % of spheres, as they do at a later period of life, describe only straight lines from their centres of ossification. Hence the head of a child labouring under hydrocephalus chronicus, notwithftanding its increased bulk, preserves for some time the form it had at birth. Some of the prominences in the head are more apparent than others: those on the forehead are evident even to the most super- ficial observer : the others also may be detect- ed by a careful examination. These prominences, in cases of hydroce- phalus, correspond in situation, as in the foetus, with the original centres of ossification of the different pieces of the brain-case. The os frontis in the foetus is composed of two pieces. Two projecting parts are seen in the foreheads of all children labouring under hydrocephalus chronicus. There is a well- marked projection on each side of the head corresponding with the centres of ossification of the parietal bones. l There