Medical lectures and aphorisms / by Samuel Gee.

  • Gee, Samuel (Samuel Jones), 1839-1911.
Date:
1902
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Credit: Medical lectures and aphorisms / by Samuel Gee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    III LARG£ HEADS IN CHILDREN Adults seldom or aever consult us on account of the size of their heads, but children are very often brought for an opinion about their heads, which are thought to be too big, and to indicate water on the brain. Much of what I have to say is taken from a paper which I published in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Reports for the year 1871. The length of time which has since passed away gives me the advantage of sitting in judgment upon my own article, of correcting it, and of adding to it the results of a larger experience. In the first place we must remember the rapid growth of the brain in childhood. During the first year the weight of the brain is more than doubled. ‘ Sbmmerring concluded that the brain reached its full size as early as the third year ; the Wenzels and Sir W. Hamilton