A probationary essay, on the pathology and treatment of false joints / [William Sharpey].

  • William Sharpey
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[1830]
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Credit: A probationary essay, on the pathology and treatment of false joints / [William Sharpey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fhumerus que j’ai eu occasion de dissdquer, une sub¬ stance fibreuse et comme ligamenteuse qui s’etendait d’une fragment a 1’autre ; et il est tres probable qu’il en est de meme, a quelques modifications pres, de tous les autres cas que je n’ai point vus.” * Other surgical writers express themselves nearly to the same effect. The connecting substance is variously described; it is commonly said to resemble ligament; some¬ times it is described as being of a cartilaginous or ligamento-cartilaginous nature, with particles of bone imbedded in it. In the preparations which I have examined, it was of a fibrous texture, very like liga¬ ment, and consisted of numerous fasciculi of fibres or bands, which passed from one fragment of the bone to the other. The fibres proceeded not merely from the fractured surfaces, but from the parts of the bones in the vicinity of the fracture. In some instances these fibrous bands were deficient at various points of the surface of the bone, and vacancies or cavities were thus left in the interior of the liga¬ mentous connexion, between its fasciculi, which were consequently separated to a greater or less distance from each other. When a vacancy of this sort exists to a considerable extent, while at the same time the ligamentous bands are united together so as to form a continuous membrane on the outside, the state of the parts may be said in some measure to form a * Traite des Maladies Chirurgicales, Tome iii. p. 103.
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