part being disturbed at the expense of another to the ultimate perfecting of the organism, that is to say, towards maturity, in other words, until the individual is capable of reproducing the species. Development, though a continuous process, naturally divides itself into intrauterine and extrauterine stages, a clinically useful division spoken of obstetrically as antenatal and postnatal. Each ...

We present a syndrome manifested in two half brothers and their two maternal aunts which is characterised in the two boys by severe mental retardation and craniofacial dysmorphism (broad, coarse features and marked plagiocephaly with flattened occiput), and in the aunts merely by moderate mental retardation without dysmorphic features. The brothers do not seem to fall into any previously descri...

The incidence of congenital dislocation of the hip in 156 children with infantile idiopathic scoliosis was 6.4 per cent, approximately 10 times its frequency in the general population. In both of these deformities there was a predominance of girls (eight girls: two boys). In unilateral dislocation of the hip the convexity of the thoracic scoliosis was on the same side as the dislocation. Eight ...