Some have treated his power as unnatural-resembling a huge hydrocephalic head, the magnitude of which implies disease, ultimate weakness, and early death.
"Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Vol. 3"
George Gilfillan
Few hydrocephalic subjects reach adult life.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson
I remember a woman with dead eyes and a huge hydrocephalic head, who sat in a bath-chair by one of the cathedral doors, and whenever people passed, cried shrilly for money in a high, unnatural voice.
"The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia"
William Somerset Maugham