A probationary essay on necrosis : submitted by the authority of the president and his council to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, when candidate for admission into their body, in conformity to their regulations respecting the admission of ordinary fellows / by James Syme ... June 1823.

  • Syme, James, 1799-1870.
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1823
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    NECROSIS. l^URGicAL Writers have made many and very different ap- plications of the term Necrosis. Louis first used it to ex- press the death of a bone throughout its whole thickness; David, again, understood by it a process in the animal eco- nomy during v/hich a bone died, and was replaced by a sub- stitute ; while Weidman, perhaps the greatest and most complete authority on the subject, though little known, ow- ing to the extreme scarcity, not only of his original work, but also its French translation, contends that neither of these definitions is sufficiently comprehensive. Verum cum non semper, si aliqua ossa pars emortua et absoluta est, novum aliquod os succrescat, morbus tamen non indole, sed vel mo- do vel gradu tamen diversus sit, patet, sic necrosin angustio- ribus, quam fas est, limitibus praeclusum fuisse. Vera de- mum necrosis semper est, si aliquod ossis ramentum, in quo vis vita extincta est, abscessit, vel proxime abscessurum est. Mr Sam. Cooper * expresses his belief that all surgeons will agree with Weidman as to the propriety of implying by this term nothing more than the death of bone. In the works, Jiowever, of Mr Russell, Dr Macdonald, and Mr Allan, (all of which are posterior to the excellent treatise of Wbid- * Surgical Dictionary, Art, Necrosis.