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

  • Russell, James.
Date:
1794
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    How far Mr Du Hamel's opinion is well founded, and, in what particulars it fails, it is not now neceflary to enquire : But upon this foundation the growth of the offeous fhell has been imputed folely to the extenfion of the periofteum, and to the depofition of ofieous particles in the heart of its fubftance, or between its layers- According to this latter fuppofition, that the bony matter is depofited be- tween the layers of the periofteum, the new ofieous fhell mould derive a com- plete covering from the original peri- ofteum, both on its inner and its outer furface. That this, however, is not the fadt, appears from an examination* of parts while they are forming. It is then evident that oftific granulations arife both from