alone; he was evidently not accustomed to solos. He danced with his at- 
tendant. In dancing or walking his gait is unique, characterless; he drags 
his feet or even puts his toes down first. 
What, now, is the meaning of Basse’s case? Two theories offer them- 
selves. One is that intra-uterine disease of’ which we can not or at least 
do not know the cause, produced this malformation or deformity pre- 
cisely as a child is sometimes born with an undeveloped arm. Hydro- 
cephalus, it is said, is a disease; so also is microcephalus, and beyond this 
it is both meaningless and causeless except as disease has a meaning and 
a cause. 
A theory for the cause of the disease, so called, of microcephaly, 
charges it to early ossifying sutures; the following table, taken from Vogt 
and Montane, shows that this can not always be the case: 
8 oo ee 
| °o °o fo} 
3 | NEE ln 3 | 4 
Ped | =~ |s/ 8 me dee 
A ale > 2 an ° S Ss yee 
o!saiq|o 2 | 2 o a = 2 7 | aus 
Selelae/Sl/alelel(elela18) 2 /a#laye 
Epes lomo elleCeale Pantanal sis beens peste he Wied | (SWFA be emt aces 
ee Wet dh eh Menlo) dee sms bey | erage 
PNANTEOMCOLOT MIP ae llee tes ls a otel| (ci--sh iooaeiltom aa ees ls | seve [rcaale leesural| loess iccomrnall bese Doe asa e 
Suture, sagittal....|.... SAA er Abe FAG | GAS [Esch sll tS scl ee ae Aer a AL 
| 
SAITO LUE OU OL aller | Seppell sce litrcioray|(e cte: alll arama. ison  beailconteilte sasica Tie ee cll koa 
A A on Aon 
Suture, squamose..]....]....].... lett{:-*: 7d ie afer | Lae | left. left. 
Suture, basilar..... ae PAGANS Ti Ate HVACR IANS | See tine orale thal ige A Ave x 
= a 
Nort.—This table shows the state of the sutures in sixteen cases.. A means suture ossi- 
fied. Five are children under fifteen years of age, and none of the sutures of these are 
ankylosed; and of the remaining eleven none are ankylosed that would not ordinarily be 
in normal skulls. 
A cure founded upon this theory has been tried, generally, at least, 
without success. The sutures are opened to give the brain room to grow, 
but it refuses to grow, and the tendency in re-ossification is to diminish 
instead of increase the cavity. 
Eddie Basse is not sick, as the hydrocephalic patients are. He is 
healthy, hearty, comfortable, perfectly satisfied with the world as he finds 
it, and perfectly incapable of conceiving that the order of things might 
be otherwise. In nothing that has been said is it claimed that there are 
not microcephalics who are sick, or whose malformation has net been 
caused by sickness; it is simply maintained that Basse is not. The other 
