A practical essay on a certain disease of the bone termed necrosis / by James Russell.

  • Russell, James.
Date:
1794
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Credit: A practical essay on a certain disease of the bone termed necrosis / by James Russell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bone ferves as a mould for the new one. And the firft ftep of the procefs is to furround the old bone with an effufion, which feems to be of gelatinous nature. This effufion is more denfe as it ap- proaches to the furface of the old bone, and more rare as it recedes from it. The thicknefs of the ftratum is variable, but it always is confiderable, and in certain cafes it appears to exceed an inch. For in fome inftances the new offeous (hell has been found an inch thick, after the omfication is complete, fo that the thicknefs of the original effufion mull be greater than this, as the whole of the mafs never is entirely converted into bone. And indeed before any bone begins to form, this effufed ftratum acquires an ad- ditional degree of confiftence. After A 4 thefe