watery-head-shaped

Updated: May 11, 2025

Such children are generally late in cutting their teeth, and when the teeth do come they are bad, deficient of enamel, discoloured, and readily decay. A rickety child is generally stunted in stature; he has a large head, with overhanging forehead, or what nurses call a watery-head-shaped forehead. The fontanelles, or openings of the head, as they are called, are a long time in closing.

Pye Henry Chavasse - Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children