. The Cleveland medical journal . he upper thirds of both tibiae are rather thickerin the transverse diameter and the curves in the bone are some-what greater than is normal. The femora are perfectly symmetrical; the surface of thebones is smooth and there is no evidence of periosteal or ostealinflammation; the articular extremities show no evidence of dis-ease. At about the middle of the shaft, each femur begins grad-ually to flatten anteroposteriorly and the transverse diameter in-creases till the condyles are reached, thus differing markedly fromthe more rounded form of the normal femur. A
. The Cleveland medical journal . he upper thirds of both tibiae are rather thickerin the transverse diameter and the curves in the bone are some-what greater than is normal. The femora are perfectly symmetrical; the surface of thebones is smooth and there is no evidence of periosteal or ostealinflammation; the articular extremities show no evidence of dis-ease. At about the middle of the shaft, each femur begins grad-ually to flatten anteroposteriorly and the transverse diameter in-creases till the condyles are reached, thus differing markedly fromthe more rounded form of the normal femur. A transverse sec- Hamann—Abnormality of the Femur 711 tion of the bone would therefore present a transversely ovalform. These bones do not correspond in shape or appearance to anyof the pathologic modifications of the femur that have been de-scribed, indeed as stated above there is no evidence of any in-flammatory or hyperplastic process. The density of the boneseems normal, no section has been made to show the interior RIGHT FEMUR. The accompanying illustration, which gives an anterior andposterior view of the right femur, will give a good idea of theappearance of the bones. 712 The Cleveland Medical Journal The specimens, I believe, are to be regarded as a variationin the normal form of the femur, in other words as anomalies;whether or not any morphologic significance is to be attributedto them, I do not know. The marked symmetry is an interestingfeature. Manouvrier (La Platymerie, Paris, 1889) describes femorathat are flattened anteroposteriorly in the upper third of thediaphysis; he names the condition platymerism, regarding it asanalogous to the well known platycnemism of the tibia. Hisspecimens were found in old French burial places and he statesthat platymerism is very rare in modern Osborn Bldg. The Treatment of Varicose Ulcer of the Leg. By M. COPLAN, M. D., Cleveland. It would seem that very little new could be said concerningthe treatment of a di
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