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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...valde eminet." (I.) Still more marked is the case given by the same author, the drawing of which I have reproduced in Fig. 2. Here the lower jaw is much too long for the upper, and has its angle unusually obtuse. The nasal bones are mere rudiments placed between the frontal and superior maxillary and the nasal processes of the latter bones are broad, so as to meet each other in the mesial line, where they are fused together. The bodies of the superior maxillary bones are small, and their alveolar processes appear to contain one molar tooth less than usual, while the inferior maxilla has space for the full complement. HI.--CONGENITAL SJIALLNESS OF THE LOWER JAW. The cases of this on record are more numerous than those of the deformities already discussed, and they have received a larger share of attention, although the views held by the various authors regarding their causation have been unsatisfactory, and even contradictory. Before passing on to consider more closely the forms in which congenital smallness has been met with, it will be well, as a help towards a better understanding of them, to bear in mind the knowledge we possess regarding the normal development of the inferior maxilla. More light has been Vrolik, Op. Cit. Tab. Ixi. Fig. 5. thrown on this by Hiiter than by any other recent author. He has shown that there is little increase of size, between birth and adult development, in the portion bearing the incisor and canine teeth, while the segment bearing the bicuspids and molars is enormously developed in proportion to the rest of the jaw during the like period of time, and this fact has to be kept in mind in the study of congenital smallness, as it is of consequence to observe what relation the jaw bears in each to the number and size...