Catalogue of the Hunterian collection in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London.

  • Royal College of Surgeons in London. Museum
Date:
1830-1831
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Credit: Catalogue of the Hunterian collection in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    63. A horn of a fallow-deer, in which the beam has apparently been fractured and united; but the injury has occasioned a diminutive and deformed growth. 54. A single valve of the shell of a fresh-water muscle [Anodon anatinus], in which a fracture has been repaired by a deposit of nacre on its inside. 3. Fractures ununited. 56. A portion of a fractured rib, where the extravasated blood between the broken surfaces had died, and was absorbed. The adhesive inflammation in the surrounding parts was forming the union. 56. A scapula with a fracture, or a partial division, near its spine. The effects of the ossific inflammation are observable on the divided edges. 57. The scapula of a lion, fractured transversely ; in which the ossific inflamma- tion had begun. 58. An ulna, fractured near its middle, and not united; the fractured ends form- ing an artificial joint. [A section of the bone has been made, which shows that the medullary canal is obliterated at this part, in consequence of the deposit of ossific matter.] 59. A femur, fractured near its upper extremity; in which the process of union had begun to take place. 60. A femur, fractured obliquely below the great trochanter. A part of the lower portion had become dead, and was in progress for exfoliation; and around this part an abscess formed, which has been circumscribed by luxuriant bony deposit. 61. A tibia, fractured at its upper extremity; with fissures which communicated with the knee-joint. The fibula remains unbroken. 62. A tibia, fractured towards its lower end: the fibula is, as usual, fractured near its upper extremity. 63. A tibia and fibula, with simple fracture near their middle. “The surfaces of contact of the two broken bones had become smooth, fitting them for motion: this probably arose in some measure from want of attention in keeping the bones at rest, for they are placed nearly at right angles ; which shows the want [or absence] of chirurgical assistance.” [The fibula, which had evidently been in the same condition that the tibia still
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