A case of osteitis deformans / by John R. Lunn.

  • Lunn, John R.
Date:
[1884?]
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Credit: A case of osteitis deformans / by John R. Lunn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Reprinted from Vol. XIII of ' St. Thomas's Hospital Reports.' A CASE OF OSTEITIS DEFORMANS.^ By JOHN E. LUNN. The name Osteitis Deformans has been given by Sir James Paget to a remarkable disease which he has described in the ' Med.-Chir. Transactions ' of 1876. Mr. Bryant also described a case m the ' Guy's Hospital Eeports' for 1877. The disease begins, writes Paget, late in life; is somewhat slow m Its progress, may continue for many years without affecting the general health, and gives no more trouble than that which IS due to the changes of the shape, &c., of the diseased bones. He also states that the affection is not asso- ciated with syphilis or any other constitutional disease, unless It be with cancer. intr^h'i M,^7 ^ admitted into the Marylebone Infirmary, July, 1883. He had been in the raUb ! r^i '^'^ ^^^^y^ enjoyed good heal h and had never suffered from gout or syphili . AU Ms family were healthy as far as he could remember. On admission he complained of rheumatic pains chiefly in the right hip and thigh. He looked pale and cachectic ad I about five feet two inches high. His chin seemed lower t^an The skeleton is now in the Museum at St. Thomas's Hospital.