A Treatise on diseases of the joints

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Macmillan, 1881 - 690 pages
 

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Page 270 - ... described being found in these situations, they may be inferred to be the product of disease in these structures : the cellules of these fringes in the place of elaborating synovia from the blood, producing, under the influence of morbid action, other products — such as cartilage, which becomes converted into imperfectlyformed bone.
Page 666 - The flap is to be turned back, and the sheaths of the flexor digitorum and posterior tibial tendons exposed, the knife being kept close to the bone, avoiding the artery and nerve. The internal lateral ligament is then to be severed carefully close to the bone; and now the foot is twisted outwards, and the astragalus and tibia will present at the inner wound. A narrow-bladed saw, put in between the tendons into the inner wound, projects through the outer. The lower end of the tibia, then the top of...

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