. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . % Fig. 5. Showing the continuous medullary canal from the humerus to the radius and ulna. of the epiphyses must, therefore, haveoccurred before the period of full growth,and the interference with the longitudinalgrowth of the diaphyses must have beendue to some disturbance at the line ofjunction with the epiphyses. As is to be expected from the abovedescription of the condition of the bones,examined at a period after the cession ofactive disease and after healing has takenplace, the microscopic examination of thebon
. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . % Fig. 5. Showing the continuous medullary canal from the humerus to the radius and ulna. of the epiphyses must, therefore, haveoccurred before the period of full growth,and the interference with the longitudinalgrowth of the diaphyses must have beendue to some disturbance at the line ofjunction with the epiphyses. As is to be expected from the abovedescription of the condition of the bones,examined at a period after the cession ofactive disease and after healing has takenplace, the microscopic examination of thebones shows nothing which will furtherelucidate the nature of the active ossification has taken place, and MY OWN CASES I have personally seen two cases that Ihave recognized. Case I. A Chinese woman of abouttwenty-se\en years, who gave a history,of smallpox when three or four years ofage. At the time seen she had deformitiesof both wrists and shortening of the righthumerus and the bones of the right fore-arm. By measurement, the right humeruswas I in. shorter
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