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Credit: Outlines of human pathology / by Herbert Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Hypertrophic of Bove. ] 5 inner table of the frontal, parietal, and occipital bones, was found hypertrophied; all the arterial grooves were of un- usual depth. The bones were not particularly vascular. h. A sort of hypertrophy of bone is the extension of ossi- fication into the ligaments and muscles. In a preparation, in the King's College museum, the femur is fixed immova- bly in the acetabulum by ossification of the anterior part of the capsular ligament, and of part of the iliacus internus. [d. 7.] Mr. LangstafF, in his rich pathological collection, has a beautiful specimen of ossification, which appears to have spread from the femur, and involves the vastus internus, the structure of which is converted into bone, but preserves externally its fibrous character. The alliance between the ossification of ligament, muscle, tendon, and exostosis (or, at all events, the origin of the former from the bones), is well exemplified in the remark- able skeleton called Mr. Jeff's, in the Hunterian Museum, which is thus described in the printed catalogue. It is the skeleton of a man thirty-nine years of age, and is remarkable for the production of ossific growths from many parts, of various dimensions and extent; some form- ing exostoses merely, whilst others pass from one part of the skeleton to another, and have thus produced anchylosis, or immobility of most of the members. The exostoses may be observed in the os frontis, mastoid process, and occiput; and in other parts of the skeleton where muscles are at- tached, as near the angle of the jaw, where the masseter is inserted; at the extremities of the spines of the vertebrae, at the coronoid processes of the ulnae, in the femur at the part where the glutaeus maximus is implanted. '* The second and more extensive kind of ossifications have in general followed the course of the larger muscles, and may be seen, on the right side, in the situation of the deltoid, joining the clavicle and acromion of the scapula to the humerus, in the situation of the supra-spinatus, and passing from the inferior angle of the scapula to the hu- merus, in the situation of the teres major and latissimus dorsi. On the back, more extensive ossifications of the mus- cles appear, which affix the scapula on both sides to the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21066735_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
