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The lesions in infancy epiphysitis, bossing of the skull, and craniotabes have been referred to in the chapter on inherited syphilis. Epiphysitis or Syphilitic Perichondritis. The first of these terms is misleading, because the lesion involves the ossifying junction and the shaft of the bone, and the epiphysis only indirectly.
My conviction on this point was by no means so strong, but for domestic reasons I again sacrificed myself to expediency. "Certainly," I answered; "and take that pencil out of your mouth. I've told you of that before. You'll swallow it one day, and then you'll get perichondritis and die." She appeared to be solving a problem. "All grown-up people seem to know everything," she summarized.
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