Feebleness of Growth and Congenital Dwarfism - With Special Reference to Dysostosis Cleido-Cranialis #265900

The whole of this book is an attempt to work out these principles. It is to bring forward grounds for the assumption that the Similarity between Rachitis and Achondroplasia is determined by these two principles, and that a number of other conditions, developing before or after birth and showing far less likeness, are yet linked together by the operation of the same principles. In the first part growth-changes will be dealt with which are seen to develop after birth. In the second part congenital changes will be discussed. The latter will, upon the whole, appear to be more serious than the former. The symptoms of the first part are more generally known, and, by their extremely high frequency, accessible for study to every practitioner; whereas the congenital growth-changes of the second part are often incompatible with extra-uterine life, and therefore come into contact with the practitioner not nearly so much as with the pathologist.