[Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by George M. Gould]@TWC D-Link bookAnomalies and Curiosities of Medicine CHAPTER VII 78/108
In this case, as in others previously reported, there were numerous telangiectatic spots of congestion scattered irregularly over the body.
Milne also reported later to the Sheffield Medico-Chirurgical Society an instance of unilateral hypertrophy in a female child of nineteen months.
The right side was involved and the anomaly was believed to be due to a deficiency of growth of the left side as well as over-development of the right.
There were six teeth on the right side and one on the left. Obesity .-- The abnormality of the adipose system, causing in consequence an augmentation of the natural volume of the subject, should be described with other anomalies of size and stature.
Obesity may be partial, as seen in the mammae or in the abdomen of both women and men, or it may be general; and it is of general obesity that we shall chiefly deal.
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