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Title: Nervous and mental diseases
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Church, Archibald, b. 1861 Peterson, Frederick, 1859-1938, joint author
Subjects: Nervous system Mental illness
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, W.B. Saunders company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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229—Hyperostosis cranii (Putnam). origin. 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 s^Tnptoms have been headache, drow-iAmer. Jour. Med. Sciences, July, 1896. 2 /^^-^^.^ Xov., 1902. 556 NEUROSES. 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 upperfacial bones are more affected than the inferior maxilla. Prognathismis not commonly observed. There is usually a large increase in thebitemporal diameter. In some instances the bones are rather evenlyenlarged; in others there are numerous exostotic thickenings, both onthe outer and inner surface of the cranium, or on either aspect

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