Congenital malformations of the lower jaw / by Alexander Ogston.

  • Alexander Ogston
Date:
1874
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Credit: Congenital malformations of the lower jaw / by Alexander Ogston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF THE LOWER JAW. The subject of Congenital Malformations of the Lower Jaw has hitherto attracted but little attention. A few isolated cases are to be found here and there in medical books and magazines, and one or two imperfect attempts to collate them and bring the matter into a definite shape exist, chiefly in foreign literature. The difficulties inherent in the subject are twofold. In the first place, cases of these malforma¬ tions are very rare, forming a marked contrast in this respect to those of the upper jaw, so fully studied and so usual in the experience of every surgeon; and, in the second place, the cases which have been put on record by no means harmonise, at first sight, among themselves, and have even been deemed capable of very different explanations. The following attempt to bring what is known of these malformations in a connected form before the profession, has been dictated, not by the expectation of clearing off all the ^obscurity of the subject, but by a desire to lay before English readers in a form sufficiently complete for use, the scattered records which exist, and to claim for the subject