Identifier: physicaldiagnosi12cabo (find matches)
Title: Physical diagnosis
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Cabot, Richard C. (Richard Clarke), 1868-1939
Subjects: Diagnosis Chest Diagnosis
Publisher: New York : William Wood and Company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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). 8 PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS (c) Nodes may be the result of many bumps in childhood or maybe caused by a syphilitic periostitis or neoplasms (see Figs. 3, 4, 5and 7). The history must decide. (d) Evidence of frontal sinusitis may be found (see Fig. 9). III. The Face as a Whole. Very characteristic even at a glance is the face of (a) acrome-galia. A strong family likeness seems to pervade all well-markedcases (see Figs. 6 and 8). The huge, bony whopper jaw is the ^ijW : 1 ■ wL jjT Fig. 5.—Syphilis of the Frontal Bone. (Curschmann.) most striking item, then the prominent cheek bones, and the ridgeabove the eyes. The nose and chin are very large. (b) Myxcedema (see Fig. 10) is not so characteristic and mighteasily be mistaken for nephritis or normal stupidity with obesity.The presence of dry skin, falling hair, mental dulness, and subnormaltemperature, all supervening simultaneously within a few weeks ormonths, make us suspect the disease, especially at or near the meno- THE HEAD AND FACE
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Fig. 6.—Acromegalia.

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