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habits and good principles; steady and a hard worker. When a small child his relatives claim that he was a chubby, fat 
boy. His father and uncle possess this arrest of develop- 
ment. This gentleman, has two sisters and a brother; one of 
the sisters has the deformity, and a brother slightly. Upon 
examination I find cheek-bones prominent, arrest of develop- 
ment of the superior maxillary bones, a well-formed and 
regular alveolar process and dental arch, fine teeth, and full 
normal lower jaw. Width outside first permanent molar, 
2.25; outside second bicuspid, 1.90; width of vault, 1.20; height 
of vault, .52. With such a history no one could dispute that 
this deformity was a clear case of direct heredity. The chest is a little broader than the other two, but there is the same