The antiquity of disease / by Roy L. Moodie.

  • Roy Lee Moodie
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[1923]
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Credit: The antiquity of disease / by Roy L. Moodie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cribra orbitalis is a similar condition of the roof of the orbit, and as in Cribra cranii the porosities never penetrate the neural cavity but do communicate with the paranasal sinuses. Rudolf Martin has tabulated its occurrence among primitive peoples as follows: Sokotrans 47.6 per cent, Negroes of the East Sudan 35 per cent, Malays 22.5 per cent, Ainos 16.8 per cent, Chinese 13.4 Fig. 28.—Cribra cranii interna (after Koganei) per cent, Mongolians, 8 per cent, Japanese, n per cent, in children 27 per cent, in ancient Peruvians 8.9 per cent, in ancient Egyptians 7.1 per cent, and in various European races 3.1-4.7 Per cent. Hrdlicka records the recovery of two infant skulls with a coral-like osteoporotic development in the roof of each orbit from a Twelfth- Dynasty cemetery in Egypt, and Welcker has reported other examples. The osteoporosis appears to be absent in Eskimo skulls and in most white races. Carl Toldt
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