A treatise on diseases of the bones / By Edward Stanley.

  • Edward Stanley
Date:
1849
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Credit: A treatise on diseases of the bones / By Edward Stanley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bones, and ulcerations often occur in the integuments covering them, followed by small exfoliations from the hypertrophied bones. It is very doubtful whether remedies local or consti- tutional have any other effect on these hypertrophies of the long bones than that of removing the irritation of the periosteum covering them. To this extent the local appli- cation of iodine, and the internal use of iodide of potassium with sarsaparilla, are certainly beneficial. But I do not think that these, or any other remedies, will effect a dimi- nution of the bones: once enlarged, they will, I believe, permanently remain so. Hypertrophy occurs in bones composed wholly of can- cellous texture, and frequently in the bones of the face, where it constitutes a disease which, on account of the deformity and other evils attendant on its increase, may require removal by operation. Hypertrophy of the bones of the face usually begins in early life, and most frequently in the superior maxillary bone. In some cases it is a direct consequence of injury to the part by violence, but in others it cannot be traced to any such cause. The enlargement of the bones usually advances so slowly, that its progress, when the bones are examined at short intervals, is often scarcely perceptible. It is unaccompanied by pain, or even tenderness, in the soft parts investing the enlarged bones, and it does not affect the general health, Hypertrophy commencing in the superior maxillary bone often extends through the whole of it, and into the adjacent bones, causing the enlargement of them, and fre- quently the obliteration of the cavities of which they constitute the boundaries. Thus the antrum becomes obliterated, the nasal passages, also the orbit contracted,
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