The subject
showed marked evidence of hereditary syphilis. Carver describes a
child who had a tooth growing from the lower right eyelid. The
number of deciduous teeth was perfect; although this tooth was
canine it had a somewhat bulbulous fang.
Of anomalies of the head the first to be considered will be the
anencephalous monsters who, strange to say, have been known to
survive birth. Clericus cites an example of life for five days in
a child without a cerebrum. Heysham records the birth of a child
without a cerebrum and remarks that it was kept alive for six
days. There was a child born alive in Italy in 1831 without a
brain or a cerebellum--in fact, no cranial cavity--and yet it
lived eleven hours. A somewhat similar case is recorded in the
last century. In the Philosophical Transactions there is
mentioned a child virtually born without a head who lived four
days; and Le Duc records a case of a child born without brain,
cerebellum, or medulla oblongata, and who lived half an hour.
Brunet describes an anencephalous boy born at term who survived
his birth. Saviard delivered an anencephalous child at term which
died in thirty-six hours. Lawrence mentions a child with brain
and cranium deficient that lived five days.
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