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Title: American practice of surgery : a complete system of the science and art of surgery
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bryant, Joseph D. (Joseph Decatur), 1845-1914 Buck, Albert H. (Albert Henry), 1842-1922
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Publisher: New York : W. Wood and company
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the same, as well as their more rational consideration, underthe following classification: ♦Oilier: Traite de Regeneration dee I >s. EXPLANATION OF PLATE XX. Flo. 1- -Prom an Amputation Stump. Atrophy and disappearance of structure no longerDeeded, i Wolff.) Fig. 2.—Leg-Amputation Stump. Atrophy with osteophyte fusion at bone ends. (Wolff.) Fig. 3, A, represents Wards scheme of the architecture of the upper end of the femur.* In the-mailer diagram, B, is represented an old-fashioned crane, in which the directions of the different forcesbrought into play when a weight is lifted air indicated by the same letters as those affixed to the ac-companying larger diagram (A). Wards view that the same mechanical principles are applied in thecrane and in the upper end of the femur is not accepted in its entirety by Wolff. Figs. 4 and 5 illustrate the architecture of the upper end of the femur. *F. O. Ward: Outlines of Human Osteology, London, 1838. AMERICAN PRACTICE OF SURGERY. PLATE XX.
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ARCHITECTURE OF THE UPPER END OF THE FEMUR; ALTERATIONS INA BONE AFTER ITS NORMAL FUNCTION HAS CEASED. (Prom Wolffs Gesetz tier Transformation der Knochen.) NON-INFLAMMATORY AFFECTIONS OF BONES. 325 A. Nutritional. B. Parasitic (considered elsewhere). Each of these may be either congenital or acquired. The limits of thisarticle entail only a consideration of the first of these, since it deals only withnon-inflammatory affections of the bones. For present purposes, therefore, weshall deal with them as comprising the congenital and the acquired forms. An even better working classification of the nutritional defects, for the pur-poses of study, will be the following: 1. Congenital.—This must include the various types of arrest of develop-ment, as well as the contrary, and might include a consideration of all sorts ofdefects and deformities, from any of the thinkable embryonal defects, such asabsence of an entire extremity, etc., to forms of gigantism which pertain to asingle digit or i

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