Saint Bartholomew's Hospital reports . Fig. And in the Epiphysis of Growing Bones. 131 There is a similar specimen in the Hospital Museum.^ Theupper part of the humerus of a child, in which the epiphysis isseparated, and there is necrosis of about a quarter of an inch ofthe extremity of the diaphysis. The epiphysis is still connectedto the shaft by one or two bands of thickened periosteum. Seewoodcut, Fig. 2. The sequestrum is shaded. Case II. Necrosis at the extremity of the diaphysis and in the epiphysisof the upper extremity of the tibia, causing destructive dis-ease of the knee-joint.

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Saint Bartholomew's Hospital reports . Fig. And in the Epiphysis of Growing Bones. 131 There is a similar specimen in the Hospital Museum.^ Theupper part of the humerus of a child, in which the epiphysis isseparated, and there is necrosis of about a quarter of an inch ofthe extremity of the diaphysis. The epiphysis is still connectedto the shaft by one or two bands of thickened periosteum. Seewoodcut, Fig. 2. The sequestrum is shaded. Case II. Necrosis at the extremity of the diaphysis and in the epiphysisof the upper extremity of the tibia, causing destructive dis-ease of the knee-joint. Charles C, aged 2^ years, was admitted to Sitwell Ward, underthe care of the late Mr. Callender, April 13, 1879. He had hadinflammation of the knee-joint for no longer than a cause for it could be assigned. The left knee was hot andtender, the synovial membrane pulpy and distended with leg was in a position of extreme flexion. There was a dis-charging sinus in the upper part of thecalf. The joint altogether presented the

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