The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . Par^s removed in excision of tbe elbow. Result of excisioD of elbow-joint.(From a patient in the Childrons lluspital.) Excision of the Right Elbow-Joint for Destructive Disease, the Result of HereditarySyphilis ; Recovery; Death from Syphilitic Disease of the Brain, nearly a year and a half afterwards Tlie patient in this case was one of those unfortunate children of whom we see so many in surgical practice among the poor of large cities, who enterupon life bearing about them the seeds of
The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . Par^s removed in excision of tbe elbow. Result of excisioD of elbow-joint.(From a patient in the Childrons lluspital.) Excision of the Right Elbow-Joint for Destructive Disease, the Result of HereditarySyphilis ; Recovery; Death from Syphilitic Disease of the Brain, nearly a year and a half afterwards Tlie patient in this case was one of those unfortunate children of whom we see so many in surgical practice among the poor of large cities, who enterupon life bearing about them the seeds of death, and who after a few years of sufferingperish miserably, the victims of their parents misconduct. J. S., a boy six years ofage, entered the Childrens Hospital on September 4, 1872, suffering from hereditarysyphilis in an aggravated form. The record at the time of his admission shows thathe had then necrosis of the left radius, and of the lower jaw, with severe osteitis of theright humerus, extending to the lower epiphysis of tlie bone and threatening the in-tegrity of the elbow-joint. A day or
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