A practical treatise on medical diagnosis for students and physicians (1904) (14571737587)

Identifier: practicaltreatis1904muss (find matches)
Title: A practical treatise on medical diagnosis for students and physicians
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Musser, John Herr, 1856-1912 Pancoast, Henry
Subjects: Diagnosis Diagnosis, Radioscopic Diagnosis
Publisher: Philadelphia and New York : Lea
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School



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king. The craniumis rounded or globular in shape, and the fontanelles are seen to be verylarge, tense, and bulging ; the sutures are widely separated. The dispro-portion in size between the face and head is apparently increased by theprojection of the anterior portion of the skull. The axis of the eyesis directed downward, and they are partly covered by the eyelidsbecause of the oblique direction of the orbital plates. The head issupported with difficulty. The eyeballs roll from side to side. Fre-quently there is strabismus. The skin is stretched tightly over thecranium and the hair is scanty. The veins are prominent. (SeeFig. 20.) Diminution in the size of the head is seen in microcephaly (circum-ference less than seventeen inches). The head is usually abnormal inshape. Sweats. Sweating of the head is of common occurrence in rhachitis.It is attended by loss of hair on the back of the head induced by boringthe head into the pillow. 168 EXAMINATION OF THE FACE, HEAD, AND NECK. Ftg. 20.
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Congenital hydrocephalus. Female, aged seventeen. The thinness of the hair couldnot be represented. (Original.) The Hair. The hair often indicates the state of the individuals nutrition. Changesin it may be significant of syphilis or other internal morbid processes.The abnormal growths and changes in the texture due to local para-sitic disease will not be referred to. Undue and rapid loss of hair inpatches, known as alojiecia, is indicative of syphilis. The hair can beeasily pulled out in large masses without causing pain. This falling ofthe hair must not be confounded with the excessive falling out whichtakes place during convalescence from acute disease, particularly typhoidfever, nor with that following an attack of gout or erysipelas. Loss ofhair may follow severe neuralgias of the fifth nerve. Color. Obscure paralysis or ansemia may be explained by notingif the.hair is artificially colored. Lead and other forms of poisoninghave repeatedly arisen from the use of hair-dyes. Other c