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lower articulating extremity, were drawn out without force ; the new bone being cut with the knife. The shaft is quite compact, and smooth externally ; but the extremities are in several delicate pieces, showing that the greater portion of them had been destroyed by caries. Aug. 26th, the wound had nearly healed, and there was an extensive development of new bone. Neither articulation showed any disposition to inflame, and the motions were already very good. Sept. 17th, the limb was doing as well as possible, and he was discharged. 1866. Dr. R. M. Hodges.

1303. The bones of a finger that was amputated for felon. The first phalanx is dead and a large part of it absorbed. The second is inflamed upon the palmar face ; with a cavity, and in it a small sequestrum ; the surrounding bone being en- larged, and of a delicate structure. The third phalanx is sufficiently well. 1866. Dr. E. M. Hodges.

1304. Thibert's model. Necrosis of the tibia, from a gunshot wound. 1847. Dr. Geo. Hayward.

1305. Necrosis of the os calcis. In the posterior portion of the bone, the whole of which is very much enlarged, rough, and misshapen, there is seen an irregular cavity, and within it a large piece of cancellated bone in the process of separation. 1846. Dr. J. C. Warren.

1306. A portion of dead bone from the top of the skull ; about 2 inches in diameter, including the whole thickness of the bone, and compact in structure, but shows that it had been inflamed before it died.

From a healthy woman, thirty years of age. The dis- ease was of two years' standing, and she denied a syphilitic origin. Looked at first like the scab of favus. Bone loose, and removed at once. Pulsations of brain very marked after removal. 1859. Dr. H. J. Bigelow.

1307. Eleven portions of bone removed, from the top of the skull, and equal altogether, in extent, to about 4 inches in diameter.

From a respectable married woman, forty-three years of age. In 1861 she applied to Dr. G., with chronic laryn-

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