On cleft palate / by Francis Mason.

  • Mason, Francis, 1837-1886.
Date:
1877
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Credit: On cleft palate / by Francis Mason. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Reminted from Vol. VII, New Series, of the ‘ 8t. Thomas’s Hospital Reports' for 1876.] ON CLEFT PALATE. Br PBANOIS MASON, F.R.C.S., SUEGEON TO THE HOSPITAL. In the last volume of the ' St. Thomas’s Hospital Reports/ for 1875, I contributed an article on Harelip. In discussing that subject it would have been no difficult task to extend the paper to undue length by including the frequently associated condition of cleft palate. But it appeared to me that the latter deformity was of equal importance, and that to do justice to the subject it would be a better plan to consider it in a separate communication. Hence this contribution. Such an arrange- ment has at least this advantage, that, by increased opportu- nities at the hospital and elsewhere, I have been enabled to acquire a more mature experience of the malformation of cleft palate, and am, therefore, in a better position to estimate the relative merits of the operations that have from time to time been devised to effect union of the fissured parts. As this paper is intended to be a supplement to that on harelip, it will be most convenient to consider the subject of cleft palate much in the same order. Whilst many of the points to which reference has already been made must necessarily be again touched upon, every effort will be used to avoid, as far as possible, needless repetition. Further, whilst I shall briefiy allude to the treatment of perforations of the palate the result of accident or disease, the principal object of the present communication is to review the subject of congenital mal-