Volume 1
Catalogue of the Hunterian collection in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London.
- Royal College of Surgeons of England. Museum
- Date:
- 1830-1831
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Catalogue of the Hunterian collection in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![granulations is formed on the surfaces of the bone in apposition ; and the surrounding soft parts are formed into a cavity. This, had the patient lived, would probably have terminated in an artificial joint. 172. A fractured patella united by ligament, which union is supposed to have been effected by granulations without suppuration. There appears to have been a fracture of the lower portion of the patella subsequent to the original fracture. 173. A section of the upper part of the femur and of the os innominatum of a man, in whom the head of the femur was broken off and did not unite. The whole of the neck has been absorbed; the capsular ligament is thickened and shortened; and ligamentous substance is formed between the two broken surfaces. 174. The other half of the preceding specimen. 3. The above-mentioned Union not taking place. 175. The right os humeri of a man, sixty-eight years of age, whose arm had been fractured four years before his death, and a new or false joint had been formed. 176. Small bodies, found detached in the cavity or false joint between the ends of the fractured os humeri No. 175. They are thirty or forty in number. 177. A section of a tibia from a case of simple fracture not united. A loose splinter of bone interposed between the broken extremities has prevented, and probably would have continued to have opposed, any firm union of the fracture. 178. A portion of rib from a cow, fractured, and not united. The same circum- stance as in the preceding specimen appears to have prevented the union. 179. The fibula of a man who had a compound fracture of the leg; where there is an attempt towards the formation of a new or false joint. [See No. 190.] 180. The os humeri of a large monkey which had been fractured. The bone has not united, but an artificial joint with a capsular ligament is formed between the two fractured portions. The opposing surfaces of the bone are covered by a thin tendinous expansion, as is the case in artificial joints generally.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2200662x_0001_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
