Remarks on the pathology of mollities ossium. With cases / [Samuel Solly].

  • Samuel Solly
Date:
1844
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    ON THE PATHOLOGY OF MOLLITIES OSSIUM. WITH CASES. By SAMUEL SOLLY, F.R.S., SENIOR ASSISTANT SURGEON TO, AND LECTURER ON CLINICAL SURGERY AT st. Thomas’s hospital, senior surgeon to the royal general DISPENSARY', ETC. READ JUNE 25th, 1844. My attention has been lately called to this rare dis¬ ease, in consequence of being so fortunate as to have the opportunity, in two cases, of tracing its progress during life, and examining the morbid appearances after death. There are many such cases on records notwithstanding the rarity of their occurrence. But there is considerable difference of opinion as to the real nature of the disease. Dr. Kilian,# who is, I believe, one of the latest writers on this subject, states that the disease presents itself under two very distinct forms. “ In the one, the bones generally, but especially the bones of the pelvis, present a dirty brownish grey colour, not transparent where thin, and * Beitrage zu einer genaueren Kenntniss der allgemeinen Knochenerweichung der Frauen und ihres Einflusses auf das Becken; von H. F. Kilian. Bonn, 1829.—P. 24.