Contributions to physiological and pathological anatomy : containing the observations made at the Philadelphia anatomical rooms during the session of 1824-25 / by John D. Godman.

  • Godman, John D. (John Davidson), 1794-1830.
Date:
1825
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    anchylosis, the one of the hip and the other of the elbow joint. These are both so consolidated as to be utterly immoveable, yet without any of that irregularity which we most frequently see after fractures, or ulcerations resulting from constitutional diseases. In the hip joint, the head of the femur is firmly united to the upper part of the acetabulum, which seems slightly widened or pressed upwards at that part. A more re- markable irregularity is to be perceived in the anchylosis of the elbow, where the union has been effected without the least alteration of the articulating surfaces, if we except a considerable elongation of the coronoid process of the ulna, and a gentle increase of thickness on the mar- gins of the bones. We should believe, with Dr. Barton, from these there is this peculiar mode of expressing a superlative degree. The word j^D [Maladi] signifies a king; but to express a king of great power and grandeur, the word IT [Fah~\ God, is pre- fixed to it; Y?ra-rv God-King or Great King. The English epi- thet godlike, refers the possession of more than human power or energy of mind, and very seldom indeed to superior sanc- tity. Accident has recently placed within my reach, a copy of Ga- len's treatise Ut^t o?m, with a commentary by the celebrated Jacohus Sylvius, who makes the following remarks on the title, n£g< t* <£g» or* : Os u^ovy id est sacrum et magnum, hoc est, cseteris racheos ossibus maius (veteres enim t^«, peyttX*, vocarunt,) vel w-a*tv, id est latum.