HORSE-shoe-head, a disease in infants, wherein the sutures of the skull are too open, or too great a vacuity is left between them; so that the aperture shall not be totally closed up, or the cranium in that part not be so hard as the rest for some years after. This openness is found to be increased upon the child's catching cold. When the disease continues long, it is reputed a sign of weakness and short life. In this case it is usual to rub the head now and then with warm rum or brandy, mixed with the white of an egg and palm-oil. Sometimes the disorder arises from a collection of waters in the head called a hydrocephalus.
Stone-HORSE. See STALLION.