Practical observations on necrosis of the tibia : illustrated with cases, and a copper-plate : to which is added, a defence of a tract entitled, "Description of an affection of the tibia induced by fever." &c. / by Thomas Whately.

  • Whately, Thomas, -1821.
Date:
1815
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Credit: Practical observations on necrosis of the tibia : illustrated with cases, and a copper-plate : to which is added, a defence of a tract entitled, "Description of an affection of the tibia induced by fever." &c. / by Thomas Whately. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    trary, there is very often no imprison- ment at all of the main cylinder of the bone; but only very small detached par- ticles of it are partially surrounded; the remainder being reduced to a mere vas- cular pulp, by the absorption of its bony particles. This diiFerence takes place in those cases where the disease was apparently the same in all its symptoms. In other cases, a portion of the cylinder of the Tibia, or detached parts of it, of different sizes, are imprisoned; and these are seldom completely surrounded on all sides by the new bone. Such varieties I have already endeavoured to explain, from a difference in the action of the inflammation at the first attack of the disease. When the whole bone is de- stroyed, and completely cased by the new, forming what is called a sequestra, several openings, frequently of a circular form, are left in different parts of the