Medical lectures and aphorisms / by Samuel Gee.

  • Gee, Samuel (Samuel Jones), 1839-1911.
Date:
1907
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    purposes, and for reasons given in my paper in the Hospital Reports. The increased length of cranium shows itself before or behind, or in both directions. It is observed that the child’s forehead is ‘ overbuilt with most impending brows or that the occiput is very pro¬ tuberant, or that the head projects both back and front. Let us now inquire into the state of things within a dolichocephalic skull. In my former paper I de¬ clared my belief that c dolichocephalus is always the result of increase in the solid contents of the skull, and not in its liquid contents. In other words, dolicho¬ cephalus indicates a big brain, and not water on the brain.’ I have now to say that this proposition is not universally true; on the contrary, dolichocephalus is only sometimes indicative of a big brain. 1. The big brain, in most cases, is naturally big. It does not afford any signs of disease, either during life by lesion of function, or after death by lesion of structure. The person has a head and brain too great for his body ; that is all we have to say of him; but that is saying much, because it is saying that he is not suffering from the incurable disease which is always supposed in such cases.