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Author : T. R Lewis
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4. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free
scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.
1888 Excerpt: ...and the outer articular edge of the radius. The distal end of the os magnum was
found to be completely disintegrated, and between it and the upper end of the second metacarpal
bone was lodged a mass of dark-brown substance, the brown tint predominating towards the centre,
where, it might almost be described as presenting a dark-red tint. Several other aggregations of dark
material were found lying between this mass and the flexor tendons. In the subcutaneous tissue
along the back of the radius, there were several isolated little cavities, or cysts, containing
aggregations of a cheesy, fatty substance mixed with black granules. They could be picked out
separately for examination; in the dark masses filaments could be distinguished after prolonged
immersion in potash; but in the yellowish, roe-like particles, picked out of the same cavities and
similarly treated, Fig. 10.--Peculiar distortion of the Hand in a specimen of the Dark variety of the
affection. no such filaments could be demonstrated when the particles were carefully selected. These
isolated cavities were limited to the subcutaneous areolar tissue between the extensor tendons and
the skin of the back of the wrist. Specimen IV.--Another hand, also amputated a short distance above
the wrist joint. The hand was considerably thickened and the wrist swollen: the palmar surface was
puffed up, and numerous openings both there, on the dorsal surface, and between the fingers,
communicated with a large cavity within. A scalpel was carried longitudinally through the middle of
the hand, the bones that still remained being readily divided, as well as the end of the radius for a
short distance. All the carpal together with a great part of the metacarpal bones were destroyed,--the
basal half being the portions in...
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