...shafts of the bones they are to join are the first to show ossification. Thus the two earliest are the lower end of the femur and the upper end of the tibia. The lower end of the fibula by this rule precedes the upper. The femur is a good example. The lower...

...angular ginglymi . it is the largest and most complicated joint in the human body. Articular surfaces. The lower end of the femur and the upper end of the tibia are the essential constituents of this joint, which is completed in front by the patella. The articular...

...which may exist for some time in the body without giving rise to the general symptoms of injection of the bones. The bones which grow the most rapidly...as the lower end of the femur and the upper end of tbe tibia, present a special anatomical ¡nvdisprwitinn. In the experiments on animals several methods...

...cancellated exostosis is usually connected with the long bones. It is most frequently met with about the lower end of the femur, and the upper end of the tibia. Exostosis is a disease of early adult life. Tumours of this description are often multiple. Sometimes...

...the tibia (Ti.}, or lower bone of the leg, alongside and outside of which is the fibula (Fi.) Between the lower end of the femur and the upper end of the tibia is fitted the patella, or knee-cap (P). Both of these end at the ankle, the tibia articulating with...

...cancellated exostosis is usually connected with the long bones. It is most frequently met with about the lower end of the femur, and the upper end of the tibia. Exostosis is a disease of early adult life. Tumors of this description are often multiple. Sometimes...

...that acute osteomyelitis is produced, like other inflammations, by infection, but still it is not a specific infectious disease. His observations were...upper end of the tibia, present a special anatomical preditposition. In the experiments on animals several methods were employed. 1. Agents which exerted...

...inflammatory processes in different parts of the body. From these last cases Kocher deduced the conclusion that osteomyelitis is excited by the action of agents...which exerted a physical or a chemical action (liquor ammonia, tinct. cantharidis, ol. crotouis) were tried with antiseptic precautions. 2. Decomposing fluids...

...experience. I ask your attention to the exostoses which grow from the posterior and lateral surfaces of the lower end of the femur and the upper end of the tibia, and which, therefore, may be said to belong topographically to the popliteal region. I have thought...

...shafts of the bones they are to join are the first to show ossification. Thus the two earliest are the lower end of the femur and the upper end of the tibia. The lower eud of the fibula by this rule precedes the upper. The femur is a good example. The lower...