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I figure you, like me, probably often wonder if Charlie Brown was ever considered to be a poster boy for hydrocephalus.
According to Pediatrics, Vol. 32 No. 3, 1963: yes. Yes he was.
Dr. Charles Peck, in an appreciative and neighborly introduction, expressed local pediatric concern over the growth and development of Charlie Brown, a central member of the Peanuts group. Alarmed by their observations of head circumference and cervical anatomy (or its lack), and wishing to caution Mr. Schulz against an unsuspected hydrocephalus or an undiagnosed Klippel-Feil deformity, our Northern California brethren had gone to the trouble of having Charlie Brown drawn with 50 percentile head circumference, and at least some neck, for Mr. Schulz's guidance. A photograph of this drawing, in its unique frame, is reproduced here (Fig. 1) through the kindness of all concerned.
Sadly, Fig. 1 has not been reproduced online. If somebody has a local library with an extensive back issue selection of Pediatrics, or perhaps knows a pediatrician who with a mania for old literature pertaining to hir chosen science, would you be so kind as to investigate? |
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