The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 124
patient operated on — the same day — was discharged. The os calcis was noted to be firm to the tibia on the 26th day. This man after leaving the hospital resumed his old intemperate habits, and died in the month of January of this year, about nine months after the operation. The cast which is here… … Abscesses formed and burrowed up under the cellular tis- sue, and necrosis of the end of the humerus took place. This delayed the boy's discharge for over two months, during which time he ran about on
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