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

Credit: Catalogue of the Hunterian collection in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Series III. Ulceration of Bone. 1. Absorption and Ulceration of Bone from Pressure. 132. The skull of an aged person, to show that the alveolar processes have been completely absorbed after the loss of all the teeth. 133. The anterior portion of the lower jaw of a boar, in which the tusks had attained an unusual length, in consequence of their not having been properly opposed by the tusks in the upper jaw, and therefore not worn away as usual by attrition; and consequently have turned inwards, and pierced the jaw on each side, and passing obliquely forwards, re-entered the mouth, after having completed nearly a gyration and a half. 134. The inter-maxillary bones of a rabbit (?), in which the left incisor has attained an unusual length, from the same cause as the preceding speci- men ; and has penetrated into, or formed a groove in the inter maxillary bone of the opposite side. 135. A portion of the cranium of a giddy sheep, in which absorption of the bone, in several places, has been produced by pressure from hydatids in the cerebrum. 136. The first bone of a sternum, ulcerated in consequence of the pressure of an aneurism. 137. The second bone of the sternum, ulcerated from the same cause. 138. A clavicle much ulcerated: [probably from the same cause.] 139. An os ilium, ulcerated in consequence of the pressure of matter from a lumbar abscess. 140. The upper part of a femur, ulcerated: [apparently from the same cause, and probably from the same individual as the preceding specimen.] 141. The upper extremity of a femur, to show the effects of pressure [probably from abscess,] which had produced absorption of its surfaee. The medul- lary cavity is much diminished, in consequence of the thickening of the parietes of the bone. 142. A femur, to show that absorption has taken place towards its lower extre- mity : [probably in consequence of abscess, or of aneurism; but not to any great extent.]

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