On harelip and cleft palate / by Francis Mason.

Date:
1877
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Credit: On harelip and cleft palate / by Francis Mason. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    example. These cases may, of course, be only coincidental, but they are interesting to notice. Harelip seems in many instances to be hereditary, for it is not very uncommon for a surgeon to operate on two or three members of a family. Liston operated on four;^ and in the case which Mr. John Teale sent me (already alluded to) of double harelip not involving the palate, the mother had been very successfully operated on as a child for a single harelip on the left side, and I have at the present time (February, 1876), under my care at St. Thomas’s Hospital two children, sisters, aged fifteen months and one week respectively with the deformity. Tliere are remarkable examples recorded to show that harelip appears to run in families. Thus, M. Demarquay related a case at the Surgical Society of Paris, in Avhich from the grandparents downwards eleven children had been born with harelip f and the same surgeon refers® to a singular malformation of the lower lip Avhich was hereditary. The case was that of an infant affected with double harelip, and there existed on each side of the middle line of the lower lip a narrow channel containing clear mucus; a probe could be readily introduced and passed obliquely under the mucous membrane ' ‘ Med. Times and Gazette/ 1865, vol. ii, p. 333. ’ ‘ Lancet,' May 16,1868, p. 642. 3 ‘ Dictionnaire de Med. et Chir.,’ tome 4.