A treatise on the diseases of the bones / by Benjamin Bell.

Date:
1828
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    certain extent also, to the subacute and chronic varieties of the disease. It may be remarked, however, that, the acute scrofulous inflammation is attended with more violent constitutional irrita- tion, and is more rapid in its progress, than either of the other varieties. There are other symptoms, however, which at- tend the chronic scrofulous inflammation of bone that are worthy of notice, as they serve to distin- guish it from several other affections of the osseous tissue, to which it bears some resemblance. It is, for the most part, as has been already remarked, when treating of acute scrofulous inflammation, confined to the spongy bones, and to the highly cellular tissue of the cylindrical bones. From the insidious manner of its approach, the whole tissue of the bone is occasionally disorganized, and the disease has extended to the periosteum, and syno- vial membrane and ligaments, before the surgeon has been able to form an accurate notion of its extent. If the proper curative means have been em- ployed, and the natural actions of the parts are favourable, the inflammation of the soft parts gra- dually disappears,—the disorganized portion of