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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    triangle in shape, of which the brow makes the basis, and the chin the apex. As the disease advances, the forehead be- comes unusually prominent, to such a degree, as oftea to prevent the unfortunate sufferer from seeing obje&s above the eyes. Owing to the water contained within the head raising upwards the bregma, and mem- brane betwixt the parietal bones, the form of the head is still farther changed ; its upper part becomes somewhat of a conical figure. The next change as to the shape of the head which may be remarked, and which generally occurs only when the disease has been of two or three years standing, is the bulging out of the bones at the sides of the prominences, which is the consequence of a very large collection of water within the head. The bones bulge out at the sides of the original centres of ossification of the pieces of the skull, which form the most resisting points; and hence, in this stage of the dis- C eafe,