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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER VI
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This was clearly a case of extrafollicular development and eruption of the tooth in an anomalous position, the peculiarity being that while in other similar cases the crown of the tooth shows itself at the floor of the nasal cavity from below upward, in this instance the dental follicle was transposed, the eruption being from above downward.

Hall cites an instance in which the right upper canine of a girl erupted in the nose.

The subject showed marked evidence of hereditary syphilis.

Carver describes a child who had a tooth growing from the lower right eyelid.

The number of deciduous teeth was perfect; although this tooth was canine it had a somewhat bulbulous fang.
Of anomalies of the head the first to be considered will be the anencephalous monsters who, strange to say, have been known to survive birth.


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