DISEASES OF BONE.
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- 3. Interstitial Absorption of Bone.
- 4. Interstitial Deposition and Enlargement of Bone.
- 5. Atrophy or Wasting of Bone.
IV. The Fourth Head includes those preter-natural growths from bone, which have not been proved to be the result of Inflammation, and which are not of a malignant nature.
V. The Fifth Head embraces those incurable diseases which depend upon degeneration of the osseous tissue, viz.
- 1. Spina Ventosa.
- 2. Osteo-Sarcoma, or Fungus Hæmatodes of Bone.
VI. A Sixth Head may with propriety include those anomalous affections of bone, concerning the nature of which little as yet is known.
- 1. Bloody Tumour, or Aneurism of Bone.
- 2. Tumours dependent upon the existence of Hydatids in the substance of the osseous tissue.
