Practical observations on necrosis of the tibia: illustrated with cases ... To which is added, a defence of a tract, entitled, 'Description of an affection of the tibia induced by fever'. Etc / by Thomas Whately.

  • Whately, Thomas, -1821
Date:
1815
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Credit: Practical observations on necrosis of the tibia: illustrated with cases ... To which is added, a defence of a tract, entitled, 'Description of an affection of the tibia induced by fever'. Etc / by Thomas Whately. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON •> NECROSIS OF THE TIBIA, $C. 4fC. About four years since* I published a small essay, describing a disease of the Tibia* generally preceded by a fever; in which 1 remarked* that it was a disease sui generis* and totally different from lues venerea* necrosis* or any of the affections of the bones attending scrophula. Since which it has been as¬ serted by some* that this disease is nothing but “ the necrosis ossium of sur¬ gical writers/*# *« * “ There is a sort of mystery in the title, which is not very creditable to the author. One would think that B