A treatise on diseases of the bones / By Edward Stanley.

  • Stanley, Edward, 1793-1862.
Date:
1849
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    the fracture of the femur being perfectly firm at the expi- ration of three or four weeks.” In a female, aged fourteen, under the care of Mr. Arnott, in the Middlesex Hospital, the first fracture occurred at the age of three years; alto- gether there were thirty-one fractures in different bones, and in some of them the fracture was many times repeated. Many of the fractures occurred from the slightest effort, and there was no difficulty in obtaining their union. Ina sister of this patient, six years of age, there was the same condition of the bones, favouring the occurrence of frac- tures. She had suffered nine fractures since the age of eight months. A case, similar to the foregoing, was under the care of Mr. Earle, in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. A boy, aged ten years, had suffered eight fractures, six in one tibia, and two in the femur. Each fracture of the tibia occurred in a different part of the bone, and had united within the usual period. In one of the cases just related, the disposition of the bones to break from very slight causes, was manifested in two members of the same family. In other instances there has been a still more decided hereditary tendency to such an affection of the osseous system. Dr. Pauli, of Leipzig, states, that he is acquainted with a family, in which indi- viduals, belonging to three generations, have suffered from extraordinary fragility of the bones ™. The following cases will illustrate the various circum- stances attendant on this condition of the osseous system. Fractures of the Humerus and Femora, following Rheuma- tism. The following case was communicated to me by ~ Mr. Wilson, surgeon to the Manchester Infirmary. A female, twenty-four years of age, was admitted into the 14 Untersuchungen und Erfahrungen im Gebiete der Chirurgie.