Cases of excision of a portion of the lower jaw for the cure of osteosarcoma affecting that bone : with some observations on the pathology of osteosarcomatous tumours / by Philip Crampton.

  • Crampton, Philip, 1777-1858.
Date:
[1827]
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Credit: Cases of excision of a portion of the lower jaw for the cure of osteosarcoma affecting that bone : with some observations on the pathology of osteosarcomatous tumours / by Philip Crampton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASES ' * OF EXCISION OF A PORTION OF THE LOWER JAW FOR THE CURE OF OSTEOSARCOMA AFFECTING THAT BONE; WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE PATHOLOGY OF j y OSTEOSARCOMATOUS TUMOURS. By PHILIP CRAMPTON, F. R. S. SURGEON GENERAL TO THE FORCES IN IREI^ND, AND SURGEON IN ORDINARY TO THE KING. The term osteosarcoma has been applied, even by the latest systematic writers, to two diseases of the bones, which although they resemble each other in several particulars, are nevertheless to- tally distinct in their nature and tendency. The one is a constitutional disease of a malignant na- ture, closely allied to, if it be not identical with cancer or with Fungoid disease y the other, al-