A Treatise On Diseases Of The Bones

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Excerpt from A Treatise on Diseases of the Bones Bone possesses in its healthy state but little sensibility. But under circumstances of disease, its sensibility often becomes wonderfully ex alted. Thus I have witnessed the manifestation of pain as acute from the penetration of an inflamed bone by a saw or trephine as from the incisions of inflamed soft parts. We Observe, moreover, the granula: tions from diseased bone participating in' the morbid sensibility of' its tissue. Such being the vital properties of bone, it IS very liable to disease and its diseases are many, when compared with the diseases of muscle, tendon, or nerve, or indeed of any other organ or tissue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ... first diseased; and as this had so long been a source of suffering, Mr. Abernethy yielded to the solicitations of the man for its removal. On examining the limb, I found the periosteum over nearly the whole of the tibia thickened, but it was soft and loosely adherent to the bone; the surface of the bone was rough and irregularly excavated, and its medullary texture, in great part, obliterated by osseous deposit. Shortly after the healing of the stump, fresh attacks of inflammation occurred in the periosteum of the right tibia, also in that of the ulna, followed by small exfoliations from each bone; and, on the occasion of my last seeing this man, many months after the removal of his limb, he was still suffering attacks of inflammation of the periosteum upon one or other bone. MALIGNANT DISEASE OF PERIOSTEUM. I have now to describe a malignant disease of periosteum, the consequence of long-continued or repeated attacks of inflammation, altering its structure and giving rise to the growth of a fungous excrescence from it. I have seen this disease only in the front of the leg, probably because this is most exposed to injury; and here, from the thinness of the soft coverings, inflammation, more readily than elsewhere, extends to the periosteum and bone. Accordingly, this disease is usually traced to local injury, followed by repeated inflammatory attacks in the skin and subjacent structures, occasioning ulceration of them, including the periosteum, and, in some instances, the bone, with exfoliations from its surface. At length, a fungous excrescence arises from the diseased parts, which, in some instances is soft and flocculent on its surface, with a firm, greyish, gelatinous base, whilst, in others, it consists of a firm, gelatinous...