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4. On some Congenital Deformities of the Human Skull

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1st, Scaphocephalus.—After making reference to his previous papers, more especially to that in which he had described several specimens of the scaphocephalic skull, in which he had discussed the influence exercised on the production of deformities of the cranium, by a premature closure or obliteration of the sutures, and to the recent memoirs of Professor von Düben of Stockholm,† and Dr John Thurnam, the author proceeded to relate two additional cases of scaphocephalus to those he had already recorded. He had met with one of these in the head of a living person, the other in a skull in the Natural History Museum of the University of Edinburgh.

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Proceedings 1864-65
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1866

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page no 444 note * Natural History Review. January 1864, and January 1865.

page no 444 note † Medicinskt Archiv. Stockholm. Vol. ii. Part i. p. 1. 1864.

page no 445 note * Natural History Review. April 1865.

page no 445 note † Third Edition. Plates vii. A. and vii. B. Edinburgh. 1814. And in Table viii. page 8, of the edition published in 1830.

page no 446 note * Upwards of forty cases of scaphocephalism have now been recorded by the following anatomists :—Sandifort, Blumenbach, and Von Baer, each one; Virchow and Lucae, each two; Minchin, three; Welcker, four; Von Düben seven; Thurnam, nine, and the author, including the two cases described in the text, eleven; and they have been found in English, Scotch, Irish, French, German, Danish, Swedish, Croatian, Illyrian, Tartar, Gentoo, Esquimaux, Ancient Egyptian, Negro, and Australian heads.

page no 447 note * Proc. Med. Chir. Soc. Edin. in Edinburgh Medical Journal, May 1865.