Selected monographs.

  • New Sydenham Society.
Date:
1888
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    skeleton of the Hottentot Venus, who died in Paris on 1st January, 1816, at the age of 38, and must agree completely with the opinions of Hennig and Lambl, that it is a case of spondyl- olisthesis, but that it would probably never have reached a higher degree if no further pregnancy had occurred to promote it. If the superior articular process on each side is placed perpendicu- larly above or immediately in front of the inferior, the separated halves of the vertebral arch cannot be placed in contact, but Fig. 25. Fig. 25.—Fifth lumbar veitebra, with a defect in the ossification between the arch and left inferior articular process. The latter (b) forms in the specimen an isolated piece of bone. stand somewhat apart. There is therefore some elongation of the interarticular portion, and the body of the fifth lumbar vertebra must during life have been displaced forwards, as is also proved to have been the case by the depression and grinding away of the anterior edge of the body of the first sacral vertebra, and the condition of the lumbar spines, which show there was a considerable lumbar lordosis with a corresponding position of the body of the fifth lumbar vertebra. (2) Fracture of the Articular Processes of the Sacrum. This mode of origin also is absolutely proved anatomically by the specimen of spondylolisthesis lumbo-sacralis at Breslau, bony treasuies stored up in the Catacombs of Paris, in company with Dr. Bonnaire, Interne of the Paris Maternity, where so many interesting pathological specimens have been found. No. 82.—Bilateral congenital spondyloichizis interarticulnris vert, lumbalis, V., in the skeleton Ect up a la Beauch'ene in the Museum of the Amphitheatre des II ospiteaux in Paris. In any case, the important Eeries of 82 observations of these lateral fissures in the vertebra, which manifest such numerous variations, will help to develop the historical knowledge of the manner of ossification of the vertebra. Unfortunately up to the present time this question has been very imperfectly investigated, and it is desirable that some cmbryologist or histologist should undertake it, as au independent work.