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Excerpt from An Eskimo Brain
These measurements agree in the main with those which I made of the other Eskimo from the same locality, thus showing that Kishu was not racially exceptional.
The scalp was found to be less than the average in thickness; this was undoubtedly due to advanced general emaciation. The skull was entirely symmetrical the sutures mostly still pervious; skull-cap thin. No adhesion of the dura; the soft membranes normal. Several masses of Pacchionian granulations over the longitudinal sinus. No signs of tuberculosis, ' nor any other pathological lesion, within the cranial cavity. Very small quan tity of ?uid. There was a pronounced pigmentation of the pia and arachnoid from the pons to over and below the calamus scriptorius.
Weight of brain, denuded of dura mater, after a few minutes'
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