On necrosis : being an experimental inquiry into the agency ascribed to the absorbents, in the removal of the sequestrum : with some observations concerning the adhesion of living to dead bone / by George Gulliver.

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1838
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Credit: On necrosis : being an experimental inquiry into the agency ascribed to the absorbents, in the removal of the sequestrum : with some observations concerning the adhesion of living to dead bone / by George Gulliver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    34 and 54, in the museum of the Army Medical Department.) EXPERIMENT X. The fibula of a rabbit was introduced into the medullary canal of the tibia of another rabbit, where it was kept thirty-six days. I omitted to weigh the fibula. It had undergone no appreciable diminution, but a portion of new bone was adherent to its sur- face. The tibia was enlarged by osseous deposit, both on its outer and inner surfaces, and the foreign bone had become firmly locked in the centre of the new bone. (E. P. B. 50, in the museum of the Army Medical Department.) EXPERIMENT XI. A portion of the shaft of a rabbit’s tibia, weigh- ing 2.1 grains, was put into the medullary canal of the tibia of another rabbit,' and retained there thirty- four days. The foreign bone was found to have undergone no change : it was surrounded by highly vascular lymph, and there was a large cyst, which had not yet burst, containing a white, concrete, purulent matter, and communicating with the cavity of the tibia. (E. P. B. 35 and 36, in the museum of the Army Medical Department.) EXPERIMENT XII. A piece of the shaft of a rabbit’s tibia, weighing 1.5 grain, and a bit of the spongy extremity of the