The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 38
ic and pale. Other viscera healthy. The large vessels and heart contained very little blood. There was a small collection of unhealthy purulent matter in manubrium of the sternum. The limb, upon dissection, showed very great disease of all the soft parts between the trochanters of the femur and the… … the trochanters. A section of the bone (see Fig. 8) showed that if osteo-inyelitis had existed, it had not extended within several inches of trochanters. Case XI. Amputation at the hip- joint for extensive disease following a gunshot fracture of the femur. — The following brief facts of the case…
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