Dissertatio medica descriptionem et casus aliquot osteomalaciae sistens, auctore Olao Jacobo Ekman, praeside Joh. Gust. Acrell, 4to, Upsaliae.

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1790
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    or fcarlet eruption, and fome degree of fore throat, with difficult deglutition. Thefe vielded to the antiphlogiflic treatment; but ffie (till complained of diflreffing pains in her arras and legs, returning at intervals through the whole year. In the year 1776, and nearly about the fame time as in the former year, a fever very fimilar to that with which ffie had before been affe&ed, again attacked her. It was attended with an eruption, which however difappeared in the fpace of three or four days. But a much greater degree of weaknefs remained, « with fuch an affection of the legs and arms, that ffie was frequently afraid fome of them were broken. She now alfo became affe&ed with conftant pains of the legs and arms, which, conjoined with fever, confined her to bed for the fpace of three weeks. When, after being a little recovered, ffie attempted to rife, ffie had fcarcely put her left foot on the floor, before ffie felt a crackling at the articulation of the thigh bone, and fell back into the arms of an attendant. Upon examination it was found, that the os femoris wras fraftured at its peck. After this ffie was confined to bed for near
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