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opportunities of watching the process, " that the operation 

 would be attended with great suffering; but I never heard 

 the infants crying or moaning, although I have seen their 

 eyes seemingly starting out of the sockets from the great 

 pressure; but, on the contrary, when the thongs were 

 loosened and the pads removed I have noticed them cry until 

 they were replaced. From the apparent dulness of the 

 children whilst under the pressure, I should imagine that a 



FIG. 23. Posterior view of cranium, de- 

 formed according to the fashion of flattening, 

 with compensatory lateral widening. (Mus. 

 Roy. Coll. Surgeons.) 



FIG. 24. Posterior view of 

 cranium deformed according to 

 the fashion of circular constric- 

 tion and elongation. (Mus. 

 Roy. Coll. Surgeons.) 



state of torpor or insensibility is induced, and that the 

 return to consciousness occasioned by its removal must be 

 naturally followed by a sense of pain." 



Nearly if not all the different fashions in cranial deformity, 

 observed in various parts of the world, are found associated 

 within a very small compass in British Columbia and 

 Washington Territory, each small tribe having often a 

 particular method of its own. Many attempts have been 

 made to classify these various deformities ; but as they mostly 

 pass insensibly into one another, and vary according as 

 the intention has been carried out with a greater or less 



