64 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 6l 



FEMORA 



Number of adult bones examined 1,210 



Number of children bones examined 133 



Total 1,343 



Of these: 



Fractures 



Dislocations adults 2 ' 



Exostoses adults 4 



1 button-exostosis or osteoma. 



1 small outgrowth of bone postero-inferiorly, 



just below the bifurcation of the linea 

 aspera. 



2 moderate excrescences on the great trochanter. 



Arthritis adults 36 



22 slight, lower joint. 

 12 moderate, lower joint. 



1 pronounced, lower joint. 



1 slight, head as well as lower joint. 

 ''Mushroom head" adults (including 1 adolescent) 16 



Periostitis /adults (with 1 adolescent) 9 



1 children 1 



7 2 slight and localized (one or more spots or 

 patches). 



3 moderate (one or more spots or patches). 



Osteoperiostitis adults (including 1 adolescent) 6 



3 localized inflammatory enlargements. 



1 moderate, generalized. 



1 pronounced, generalized (in adolescent, bone 



light). 

 1 exostotic, lower half of bone. 



Other inflammatory: 



Small ulcer-like lesion on neck adult 1 



Miscellaneous adults 3 



infantile paralysis 2 



lesion, destructive, lower two-fifths 1 



Specimens showing more than one lesion (included in the 

 above) : 



a. Moderate osteoperiostitis, and slight arthritis both 



joints. 



b. " Mushroom " head, and destructive lesion lower two- 



fifths. 



1 See also under " ossa innominata." 



2 Including the adolescent and the child. 



