Growing children and awkward walking / by Thomas William Nunn.
- Nunn, T. W. (Thomas William), 1825-1909
- Date:
- 1894
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Growing children and awkward walking / by Thomas William Nunn. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![communication followed several others pub- lished by Sir G. M. Humphry, at various ante- cedent dates, having reference to the cardinal importance of the bone-producing stratum of car- tilage, that stratum between the shaft of the bone and the moulded end immediately forming the joint.1 It is probable that children of quite early years, by some apparently trifling accident or strain, have injury done to this very important stratum of bone-producing cartilage. Children in tumbling about run the risk of such injury [nurses, in snatching at the falling or stumbling child by the arm, often thus cause mischief in the elbow joint]. Mr. Albert Reeves has given a full account of this disordered growth (“ Bodily Deformities,” 1885), and he confirms the statement that the 1 Professor Charcot first detected the relation of certain changes in the nervous system to the disordered state of the nutrition of the bones and joints, as well also as of the muscular tissue. Dr. Buzzard holds the view that there is a centre of nerve force presiding over the nutrition of the bony skeleton and the joints, and he has, following up the investigations of Charcot, ela- borated this in his “ Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System,’* and has logically concatenated the pheno- mena attendant on the form of disorganization of bones and joints found in association with nerve diseases.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28117554_0070.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
