Interstate medical journal . Fig. 11.—Rabbit No. 3225. No sunlight. Fig. 12.—Rabbit No. 3228. callus. Soft union. Moderate callus. Soft Fig. 13.—Rabbit No. 3227. No sunlight. Fig. 14.—Rabbit No. 3229. Sunlight. Small callus. Good union. Large callus. mens on the right side. Sections were paired in which there was,as far as could be obtained, similar arrangements of the bone to the different planes often occupied by the rib ends it wasoccasionally impossible to get enough of both in the section to givea good picture; in such instances a characteristic pictur
Interstate medical journal . Fig. 11.—Rabbit No. 3225. No sunlight. Fig. 12.—Rabbit No. 3228. callus. Soft union. Moderate callus. Soft Fig. 13.—Rabbit No. 3227. No sunlight. Fig. 14.—Rabbit No. 3229. Sunlight. Small callus. Good union. Large callus. mens on the right side. Sections were paired in which there was,as far as could be obtained, similar arrangements of the bone to the different planes often occupied by the rib ends it wasoccasionally impossible to get enough of both in the section to givea good picture; in such instances a characteristic picture of one ribend is shown. Neuhof: Sunlight and Repair of Fractures 743 CONCLUSIONS. 1. Sunlight has a demonstrable reparative effect upon fracturesdue to an ill-understood action on body tissues. With the demon-stration of this phenomenon the healing influence of the suns rayscannot be deemed peculiar to surgical tuberculosis alone. 2. The evidence of the action of sunlight is found in an accelera-tion of repair at the fractured ends of bones and an increase in thereparative zone. 3. This evidence is observable as early as after eleven days ex-posure
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