The cornea threatened to slough.

There was double harelip on the left side; the second and third fingers of both hands were webbed for their whole length; the right foot wanted the distal phalanx of the great toe and the left foot was clubbed and drawn inward.

The child swallowed when fed from a spoon, appeared to hear, but exhibited no sense of light.

It died shortly after the accompanying sketch was made.
Occasionally a deficiency in the osseous material of the cranium or an abnormal dilatation of the fontanelles gives rise to a hernia of the meninges, which, if accompanied by cerebrospinal fluid in any quantity, causes a large and peculiarly shaped tumor called meningocele.

If there is a protrusion of brain-substance itself, a condition known as hernia cerebri results.
Complete absence of the inferior maxilla is much rarer in man than in animals.