On the reparative process in human tendons after subcutaneous division for the cure of deformities. With an account of the appearances presented in fifteen post-mortem examinations in the human subject : Also a series of experiments on rabbits and a resume of the...literature.

  • Adams, William.
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1860
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Credit: On the reparative process in human tendons after subcutaneous division for the cure of deformities. With an account of the appearances presented in fifteen post-mortem examinations in the human subject : Also a series of experiments on rabbits and a resume of the...literature. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and the plates now published have been executed. The drawings of the microscopic appearances were selected from a series drawn by myself. The drawing from which Plate V has been taken was made by Mr. Eairland with the greatest accuracy, from my dissection of the leg. This plate has already been published in the e Trans. Path. Soc./ vol. viii, 1857. In order to render the present work still more complete, I have added as an appendix a resume of the opinions en- tertained by the principal writers—both English and foreign—on the subject of the reparative process in tendons after division by subcutaneous and open wound. Many of these are based upon experiments on animals, which are also referred to. In the foreign literature of the subject no authors have been omitted whose works were accessible, or contained in our public libraries, and for the extracts from these books I am indebted to my friend, Dr. H. Dick. It is somewhat remarkable that we have not been able to find in any of the foreign authors the account of a single post-mortem examination after tenotomy in the human subject.