Diseases of infancy and childhood (1914) (14749063416)

Identifier: diseasesofinfan00fisc (find matches)

Title: Diseases of infancy and childhood

Year: 1914 (1910s)

Authors: Fischer, Louis, 1864- (from old catalog)

Subjects: Children

Publisher: Philadelphia, F. A. Davis company (etc., etc.)

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Top View of tlio Fcvtal Skull, showiuo- tho :nitiMior fontnnollo and thefrontal, coronal, and sagittal suturos. ((^randin A: .larinan.) PLATE XXXVI

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Posterior View of the Fcptal Skull, showing the posterior fontanelle and thelauibdoidal and sagittal sutures. (Grandin & Jarnian.) REFLEXES. 737 due to an increase in tlie thickness of the cortex and in the size of thecortical constituents. Difference Beiwe&n Infantile and Adult Brain.—The fissure of Sylviusin its relation to the spherio-parietal and squamous sutures occupies ahigher position in childhood than in later life. Symington and McClellaUjin studying frozen sections of the brain of chiklren under 7 years of age,found the Sylvian fissure above the squamous suture and covered by theparietal bone. Fissure of Rolando.—The position is the same in the infant as in theadult. The Cerebellum.—This is much smaller in the child than in the adultin comparison with the cerebrum. The convolutiofis of tJie hrain are more shallow in the infant than inthe adult. The depressions or sulci between the convolutions are not sodeep in the infant as in later life. The special centers

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