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Bones - Diseases

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  • Children with orthopedic disorders. Twenty six pen drawings.
  • A rachitic skeleton, measuring two feet two inches in length, seen from the front and the back. Engraving, 1749.
  • Five figures of exostoses (tumours) on the left femur (thigh-bone) Engraving, 1749.
  • A false ankylosis of the right femur (thigh-bone), seen from the front and back (figs 1-2) and divided for an interior view (fig. 3) Engraving, 1749.
  • Wolfgang Gschaidtter, a carpenter at Innsbruck, paralyzed for fifteen years, with deformed feet and hands. Line engraving by A. Spängler, 1620.
  • Children with orthopedic disorders. Twenty six pen drawings.
  • An ankylosis of the bones of the fractured right femur (thigh-bone) and tibia (lower leg bone) (figs 1-2) and the radius and ulna (bones of the forearm) joined by a flexible callus (figs 3-4) Engraving, 1749.

Works from the collections

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    A treatise on diseases of the bones / By Thomas M. Markoe.

    Thomas M. Markoe | Date: 1872
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    Treatise on diseases of the bones / by Edward Stanley.

    Edward Stanley | Date: 1849
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    Ueber die Entwickelung der Knochensubstanz nebst Bemerkungen über den Bau rachitischer Knochen / von Prof. Heinrich Müller.

    Müller, Heinrich | Date: 1858
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    Tabulae ossium morbosorum : praecipue Thesauri Hoviani. Afbeeldingen van zieke beenderen, voornaamlyk uit het Beenkabinet van Hovius / door Andreas Bonn.

    Andreas Bonn | Date: 1785-[88]
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    A treatise of the rickets : being a disease common to children. Wherein (among many other things) is shewed, 1. The essence, 2. The causes, 3. The signs, 4. The remedies of the disease. Published in Latine, by Francis Glisson, George Bate, and Ahasuerus Regemorter: doctors of physick, and fellows of the Colledge of Physitians at London. Translated by Phil. Armin. Englarged, corrected, and very much amended throughout the whole book. By Nich. Culpeper Gent. student in physick and astrology.

    Francis Glisson | Date: 1668
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Related topics

Bone Diseases
Rickets
Pathology
Human anatomy
Human skeleton
Anatomical specimens
Joint Diseases
Leg
Femur

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