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

  • Samuel Solly
Date:
1844
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Credit: Remarks on the pathology of mollities ossium. With cases / [Samuel Solly]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    power in her lower extremities ; and two or three months before her death, the bones of the extremi¬ ties were observed to lose their natural direction, and become curved : subsequently, fractures took place from the slightest causes. She suffered ex¬ cruciating pain during the whole time she was in the asylum, which she referred to her bones ; she did not suffer from spasm of the muscles, as many of these cases do, and the urine, during the whole time she was at Hanwell, was clear and natural. Her appetite was good, and all the functions duly per¬ formed, with the exception of the catamenia. Large doses of morphia and other sedatives were adminis¬ tered, to procure sleep and relieve pain. Her men¬ tal aberration was extremely slight. Her sufferings were terminated bv death on the 28th October 1842. Post-mortem examination of the body.—Hanwell, October 29th.—Height, measured after death, four feet two inches—great emaciation. Head large in proportion to the size of the body ; chest very much deformed, pinched up, and projecting anteriorly,— very narrow from side to side ; the ribs appeared widened, the pelvis extremely narrow. Spine curved forwards almost at a right angle in the upper dorsal and cervical regions. Both clavicles broken and bent at an acute angle. Head of one humerus swollen, shaft of the left, broken and bent; radius and ulna slightly swollen, the right radius broken, the lower extremities enlarged at the epiphyses; ossa femora on both sides broken, that on the right side in one