Volume 1
A compendium of human & comparative pathological anatomy / By Adolph Wilhelm Otto. Translated from the German with additional notes and references, by John F. South.
- Adolph Wilhelm Otto
- Date:
- 1831
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A compendium of human & comparative pathological anatomy / By Adolph Wilhelm Otto. Translated from the German with additional notes and references, by John F. South. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![its mother’s head.’”’ The woman died four hours after delivery. Boruwlaski, the celebrated Polish dwarf, measured 39 inches in height when thirty years old. He was, till very lately, if not at present, living at Durham. T.] (1*) [It is remarkable, that of the six children of which Boruwlaski’s father’s family consisted, they were born alternately short and tall ;—the eldest son was 3 feet 6 inches, and lived to sixty years of age; the second, 5 feet 10, and died at twenty-six years; Boruwlaski himself was the third; the fourth and sixth were of the common height; but a daughter, who was the fifth child, measured only 2 feet 2 inches, and died at twenty-two. T.] (2) Especially the case in dogs; I have likewise seen it in horses and goats. ay The irregular diminutiveness is more frequently but paR- TIAL, so that particular organs only do not acquire their proper size, and are therefore disproportioned to the rest of the body: thus the head,’ the trunk, or, finally, the extre- mities” may be too small in proportion to the other parts. Such malproportions occur frequently in giants and dwarfs. {In monsters, the enlargement of a particular part is fre- quently effected as it were at the expense of other parts; the accessory parts in double monsters, as well as the reproduced parts in animals, as the tails of lizards and serpents are usually too small, and so remain. General weakness, lame- ness, and continued pressure,’ diminished flow of the juices, &c. not unfrequently retard the growth. Often, together with the natural size of the other parts, the whole systems are back- ward in their development, and either remain small or are developed at an unusually late period; this is most commonly observed in the sexual parts,* more rarely in the respiratory organs, and least frequently in the vascular and bony systems.* In hollow organs, and especially in certain canals, an IRRE- GULAR NARROWING, and even COMPLETE IMPERVIOUSNESS, 1S often the consequence of deficient development; the latter is called, especially if it affect the mouths of such canals, con- GENITAL CLOSURE, atresia congentta, which, as it is always observed in the early stage of foetal existence, in new-born infants has been found as an irregular appearance in all the openings of the body. (1) A remarkable instance given by Hell D. de concretione digitorum, 8vo. Landsh. 1820, with figures. (1*) [A very good instance of disproportionate limbs, was a man, who, some years ago, might have been seen on Blackfriars’ Bridge, sitting in a little chair, making pens, and from his habits, known as Drunken Andrew (the King of the Beggars). He was altogether of small make, save his head, which was that of an adult; but his lower extremities did not exceed those of a child of four years old, and were not capable of supporting his weight; he was, therefore, obliged to wheel his little chair about on crutches. T. ] (2) For example, the small feet of the Chinese. (3) With which also the pubic hair, and in man the beard and larynx—in women the breasts usually sympathize. In the male sex I have seen smallness](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33489166_0001_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
