Dissertatio medica descriptionem et casus aliquot osteomalaciae sistens, auctore Olao Jacobo Ekman, praeside Joh. Gust. Acrell, 4to, Upsaliae.

Date:
1790
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Credit: Dissertatio medica descriptionem et casus aliquot osteomalaciae sistens, auctore Olao Jacobo Ekman, praeside Joh. Gust. Acrell, 4to, Upsaliae. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    near three months; and during all that time fevere pains continued, particularly in the right arm, right fide of the face, and eye of the fame fide. In the year 1777, the Mure feemed to be pretty firmly united; but a new and unufual mechanifm had taken place. The right eye was fubjeded to conftant inflammation, and the antrum maxillare fo diftended, as to fet the face awry. The vertebras of the neck were rigidly incurvated, fo that the head was bent towards the thorax. The vertebra? of the back were formed into a hunch, fo that the body was fliortened about ten inches. The right tibia was fo deprived of Arength, that upon merely lifting the foot, the leg was evi- dently bent. The lymphatic glands in differ- ent parts of the body, particularly in the neck, mammas, and axilla, were enlarged and indu- rated. This year alfo, and about the fame feafon, flic was attacked with her ufual fever, attended with the ordinary exanthematous ap- pearances. Such was the fragility of her limbs, that fhe durfi not attempt to Aand, but was obliged either to ly or fit. A very great quantity of a white coloured calcareous fedi- ment