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.

Date:
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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    power of attracting, as it were, particles similar to itself from the blood. To complete the resemblance to assimilation, we have only to suppose the dead matter to be porous, and the new particles attracted to its interstices. And if new bone can be deposited by the neighbouring living textures on a dead sub- stance, and become firmly adherent to it, as shewn in the experiments 10, 15, 16, and 17, we may be permitted to doubt the conclusions of those physio- logists who adopt the views of Haller and Dethlef concerning the reparation of injured bones, since the close connection of the new to the surface of the old bone, is no proof that the former was secreted by the vessels of the latter, however necessary in human subjects the presence of the old bone may be to the establishment and continuance of the ossific process. But as I propose to institute further experiments concerning this subject, it may be proper to defer its consideration for a future occasion. O. Woodfall, Printer, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London.