A memoir / by Sir Samuel Wilks.

  • Wilks, Samuel, Sir, 1824-1911.
Date:
1911
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Credit: A memoir / by Sir Samuel Wilks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    taken to the Pathological Society in the year 1869 under the name of “osteoporosis.” My case is there fully set out as that of a patient who was under the care of Dr. Albert Massey, of Camberwell. It is carefully described as regards the great increase of size of all the bones, which were also bent, so that he had when standing more the appearance of an ape than a man, and the skull also was much hypertrophied. When he died, which occurred from his increasing inability to moA^e the chest, I asked Dr. Goodhart, the House-Physician at Guy’s, to assist me at the post-mortem examina- tion. The patient’s friends, knoAving the case Avas a rare and important one, gave me carte hlanctte to , take away some of the bones for further examina- tion. This was done, and a very accurate and minute account may be found in the ‘Pathological Transactions.’ I state in my letter to the ‘ Lancet ’ that, not find- ing any periostitis, I preferred the name “ osteo- porosis deformans.” 1 might say that previous to this Mr. Durham had written a paper in the ‘Guy’s Hospital Reports ’ for 1864 on “ Mollities Ossium,” in Avhich he gives a similar case. Acute llodghin's Disease or Status LymjAiaticus. In the last edition of my ‘ Lectures on Pathological Anatomy,’ published in 1889, under diseases of the “Lymphatic Glands” 1 have the following; “We have met with two cases of acute Hodgkin’s disease in young lads. The disease lasted a feAV Aveeks and