Catalogue of the Pathological Museum of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary / edited by David Foulis.

Date:
1878
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Credit: Catalogue of the Pathological Museum of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary / edited by David Foulis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SERIES II. Bones, Joints, and Muscles, \Pre]^arations in Jars^ 1. Right lateral half of skull cap with a depressed fracture of the bone, and portion of dura mater, showing a laceration cor- responding to the ragged edge of the depressed part. 2. Depressed fracture through the frontal sinuses, ethmoidal cells, and orbital plates of the ethmoid. 3. Fracture of the skull of a cliild, received by the falling of a slate from the top of a house; internal plate depressed. Two bristles mark the dejDressecl portions. 4. Base of skull, right side. Fracture extending through lateral sinus and petrous part of temporal bone. Ljnuph fills the fissures of the fractui-e, and a considerable amount of bone- tissue has been removed by absorption or ulceration after fracture. 5. Fracture of the cranium immediately above left orbit. 6. Fracture of the fifth cervical vertebra; the body is fractui-ed transversely. The laminae at the junction with the articu- lating processes are also fractured perpendicularly. 7. Section of vertebrae, showing fractui-e of last dorsal vertebra. The spinal canal is almost obliterated opposite the fracture. The bones are partially re-united. The preparation has been dried and varnished. 8. Section of vertebral column, with a fracture of the first lumbar vertebra. A portion of the body is pushed back, pressing the spinal cord to half the natural size ; patient had pai'alysis of the lower extremities. 9. Opposite section of above fracture, a coating of callus is throw out at the anterior portions of the body, binding the vertebrae above and below. 10. Fractui'e of the body of a dorsal vertebra. A portion of the body is seen pressing backwards against the spinal cord, which is compressed and flattened laterally to half its thickness; pieces of whalebone are inserted to show the position of the bone more clearly. 11. Opposite section of vertebral column in the above case, showing more distinctly the body thrown backAvards; also, the angular curvature of the parts. (Dried and varnished).