. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Chronic rheumatic arthritis. (Miller.) we see no reason why these conditions are not as likely to lead to achauge of form here as in the bones of the leg or of the spine. A NECK, WITHIN THE CAPSULE. 375 change of form in the head may be the result of an. ulceration of thecartilage, and a change of form in the neck, of ulceration of the other causes, also, chronic rheumatic arthritis may operatein a large proportion of those examples which, belong to advancedlife. One case, reported by Gulliver, would seem to show that a de-formi
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Chronic rheumatic arthritis. (Miller.) we see no reason why these conditions are not as likely to lead to achauge of form here as in the bones of the leg or of the spine. A NECK, WITHIN THE CAPSULE. 375 change of form in the head may be the result of an. ulceration of thecartilage, and a change of form in the neck, of ulceration of the other causes, also, chronic rheumatic arthritis may operatein a large proportion of those examples which, belong to advancedlife. One case, reported by Gulliver, would seem to show that a de-formity may occur here as a result of disease, and independently ofpressure,1 yet it is plain, from the direction which the deviation of thehead and neck usually takes, that pressure performs an important partin the causation. From these various causes, operating in these diverse ways, we shallhave the different deformities enumerated and described by surgicalwriters. The head flattened, irregularly spread out, depressed andpolished; the neck shortened an
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