On the injuries and diseases of bones : being selections from the collected edition of the clinical lectures of Baron Dupuytren, Surgeon-in-chief to the Hôtel-Dieu at Paris / translated and edited by F. Le Gros Clark.
- Guillaume Dupuytren
- Date:
- 1847
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the injuries and diseases of bones : being selections from the collected edition of the clinical lectures of Baron Dupuytren, Surgeon-in-chief to the Hôtel-Dieu at Paris / translated and edited by F. Le Gros Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![CHAPTEU V. ON THE CYSTS WHICH ARE DEVELOPED IN THE STRUCTURE OF BONE, AND THEIR VARIOUS KINDS.' Some time since I was the first to demonstrate tliat certain tumours^ ordinarily of a fibro-filamentous character, are de- veloped in bones; and which, as they grow, raise and thin the bone, so as to reduce it to a mere shell, not thicker than a plate of metal beaten out with a hammer. When the subject of such an affection dies, the cavity in the bone is frequently found to contain fibro-filamentous matter, unless altered by a process of degeneration. This tissue appears to be altogether a new product; but it is remarkable that there is neither swelling nor softening of the bone, which is only distended and thinned: this point is of considerable importance in its bearing upon the diagnosis. The following interesting case will furnish a good illustration of the characteristics of the dis- ease under consideration. Case I. Cyst developed in the osseous walls of the superior maxillary bone; operation, followed by death.—A yomig gii'l, about 7 years of age, well-formed and of lymphatic diathesis, was admitted into the Hotel-Dieu in June 1832, with a tumour in the upper jaw. She informed us that she had been struck on the cheek, and that after some time the part became painful and began to swell. On admission, the tumour had attained the size of the fist; the right nostril Avas obstructed and flattened, the palatine arch was driven upwards and towards the opposite side, and the eye was forced forwards. During the last month she had evidently fallen away. At first sight I was disposed to regard this disease as osteo- ' [A foot-note appended to the present article, refers to a memoir on ' Osscoiis Cysts,' by A. Briere dc Boismont, in tlic ' Journal complementairc des Sciences M^dicales,' for 1833.—Tr.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b23982573_0456.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
