The Mortal Remains of Swedenboeo 39 



but is, on the other hand, quite the contrary in relation to the breadth 

 of the forehead. The orbits are fairly open, the orifices being rhonibi- 

 cally rounded, with the longitudinal axis situated obliquely and a hypsi- 

 conch index of 92. n. The upper orbital margins are somewhat thick and 

 prominent, but not overhanging; the space between the orbits medium 

 large. The nasal index is leptorhine (46.3); the ridge of the nose, which 

 at the root shows a distinct depression below the glabella, forms in the 

 upper, still preserved part, a slightly concave curve, which below ap- 

 pears to pass over to a convexity. The sutures between the bones 

 of the face for the greater part persist. 



The alveolar processes of the superior maxillary bones are com- 

 paratively well preserved, and form an elliptical bow. They possess, 

 in spite of their free edges evidently having been somewhat injured 

 after death, a height of 1 to I'/s em. from the plane of the hard 

 palate. Thus no remarkable senile atrophy is present; the spongiosa 

 seems, however, more than ordinarily porous. The palatal index amounts 

 to about 71.74 and is thus leptostaphyline. 



None of the teeth of the upper jaw remain, but several more 

 or less well preserved alveoles indicate that there were still some teeth 

 remaining at the time of death, or in any case that they were not 

 lost long before death. ^ On the left side are found only the traces of 

 the alveoles of the canine, and of the two incisors, the back part of 

 the alveolar process of the same side showing a broad, rather level 

 surface. On the right side again, towards the back, there are found 

 three little shallow, but well preserved alveoles for separate roots 

 of the molars and bicuspids. In the anterior part there is, besides in- 

 distinct remains of the alveoles of the incisors, a well developed alveole 

 of the canine, whose outer wall, however, is defective. In the afore- 

 mentioned reproduction of the plaster cast of 1823 (page 15), it is 

 evident that there then was an eye-tooth, strong, but worn all the way 

 to its neck, which tooth consequently has been lost after 1823. It may 

 further be seen on the plaster cast that this tooth had two different 

 facets of detrition, both facing obliquely outwards, the upper one reach- 

 ing rather far up on the outer labial side of the tooth. I shall later 

 return to the important conclusions wliich may be drawn from this. 



' According to J. C. Cuno, quoted by Tafel 32 (Vol. II., p. 450), Swedenbors, at 

 the age of 81 years had related that his teeth had begun to grow anew. The most probable 

 explanation seems to be that it was only the roots of the lost teeth, which after having been 

 overgrown by the gum, had reappeared on the alrophy of the latter. 



