A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Chronic rheumatic arthritis. (Miller.) action in the absorbents, ensues, resulting in an equally slight soften-ing of the bony tissue, these pathological circumstances may end,sooner or later, in a striking change of form in the neck or it is not necessary to suppose an external injury to explain theoccurrence of this inflammation, and consequent softening of the bone;a scrofulous, or rickety, or tuberculous constitution may occasion it,and we see no reason why these conditions are not as likely to leadto a change of form here as in
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Chronic rheumatic arthritis. (Miller.) action in the absorbents, ensues, resulting in an equally slight soften-ing of the bony tissue, these pathological circumstances may end,sooner or later, in a striking change of form in the neck or it is not necessary to suppose an external injury to explain theoccurrence of this inflammation, and consequent softening of the bone;a scrofulous, or rickety, or tuberculous constitution may occasion it,and we see no reason why these conditions are not as likely to leadto a change of form here as in the bones of the leg or of the change of form in the head may be the result of an ulceration ofthe cartilage; and a change of form in the neck, of ulceration of theneck. Among other causes, also, chronic rheumatic arthritis mayoperate in a large proportion of those examples which belong to ad-vanced life. One case, reported by Gulliver, would seem to showthat a deformity may occur here as a result of disease, and indepen-dently of pressure
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