Identifier: nervousmentald00chu (find matches)
Title: Nervous and mental diseases
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Church, Archibald, b. 1861 Peterson, Frederick, 1859-1938
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Publisher: Philadelphia : Saunders
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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monary osteo-arthropathy. The disease runs a protracted course, but may come to a standstill,or it may recede slightly if the thoracic condition is greatly improved.Desmons and Beraud 4 report some improvement following subcutaneousinjections of extracts made from sheeps lungs. 1 Phila, Med. Jour., Nov. 5, 1898. 3 Medicine, Jan., 1898. 2E. F. Buzzard, Br. Med. Jour., June 1, 1902. 4 Archives gen.de Med., 1894. TROPHONEUROSES. 493 HYPEROSTOSIS CRANIL Virchow used the term leontiasis ossea, Starr, megalocephalie, andPutnam, hyperostosis eranii to designate certain rare cases in which thebones of the cranium, and less markedly those of the face, undergoenormous enlargement. The process is apparently inflammatory incharacter, but its symmetrical distribution, association with develop-mental periods of life, and progressive nature point to a lack of trophiccontrol. Putnam,1 accepting seven from Baumgartens list, has beenable to tabulate fifteen cases, including that of Edes. Morton Prince2
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Fig. 216.—Hyperostosis eranii (Putnam). believes that this condition is but a part of osteitis deformans, withwhich it is sometimes associated, and that both are of neuropathicorigin. In the majority the disease appears under thirty years ofage, and often in childhood or at puberty. The cranial enlargementis sometimes preceded by inflammations about the head, such as erysip-elas, and by traumatism. Early symptoms have been headache, drow-siness, epileptic attacks, deafness, and blindness. Mental irritability orenfeeblement is common. Exophthalmos, loss of hearing, facial palsy,optic neuritis, and blindness are due to local or intracranial pressure.The anterior portion of the head is usually most enlarged, and the upper 1 Amer. Jour. Med. Sciences, July, 1896. 2 Amer. Jour. Med. Sciences. Nov., 1902. 494 NEUEOSES. facial bones are more affected than the inferior maxilla. Prognathismis not commonly observed. There is usually a large increase in thebitemporal diameter. In some instance

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