Orthopædic surgery : a handbook / by Charles Bell Keetley.

  • Keetley, Charles Bell.
Date:
1900
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Orthopædic surgery : a handbook / by Charles Bell Keetley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by UCL Library Services. The original may be consulted at UCL (University College London)

    541/570 (page 519)
    But the skin does not alter, nor is the speech thickened, so the condition cannot he confounded with myxoedema. The cranium is natural and the long bones do not curve— marked distinctions from osteitis deformans; although dorsal kyphosis, and even scoliosis, may occur. Fig. 247.—Acromegaly. A patient of Dr. ,J. Barry Ball's.' In many cases coincident abnormality of the thyroid gland has been noted. E.g., in Godlee's there was a large bronchocele ('Clin. Soc. Trans.' 1888, p. 196). And in at least three—a considerable proportion of those ' West Land. Med. Journ. 1898.