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brown color, and when an epiphysis has been incompletely essified, the 
cartilaginous portion presents itself as a similar dried gelatinous mass. 
The ends of the shafts of the long bones are very ragged also, the can- 
cellated substance being exposed and more or less broken. 
III. WEIGHTS AND MEASUREMENTS. 
In order to have some relative standard of weight, we have also 
weighed the bones of a girl of about seventeen. But, it must be 
observed, that all these but the scapula (which wanted the acromion epi- 
physis) were weighed with all the epiphyses. These healthy bones 
were rather slender, but were also longer than the diseased bones (the 
diseased and healthy femurs being 14} and 16 inches respectively, ex- 
cluding the lower epiphyses). 
Diseased Bones. Hlealthy Bones. 
Femur (without lower epiphysis) 8 oz. Do (with all epiphyses) 8 oz. 84 drms. 
Sibi. Co. a nie ) 55 “* Do a - Dees 
Humerus (with all epiphyses) 35 ‘‘ Do ‘ - Rie OR 
Radius (without epiphyses) 1 “ Do <4 fs 6 be 
Ulna (without lower epiphysis) 2 ‘* Do we - i oe 
Clavicle (_ ‘* inner - ae 
Scapula ( ‘ all epiphyses 
except coracoid) Pe a 
Fibula (without both epiphyses) 15 ‘‘ Do . fie aa 
The following are the measurements in circumference of the bones, the 
same healthy skeleton as before being used for comparison, 
Diseased Bones. Healthy Bones. 
Femur (middle), 5 in. 24 in, 
Tibia ff AB 6 &s 
(at tubercle), fe &< 
Humerus (middle), qi + Decks 
(above condyles), 5 6 Bh « 
Radius (middle), BE: 1k « 
(lower fourth), AL ss 12“ 
UIna (ac) and middle); Beit fay es 
(just below corocoid), 4i bs 18 
Fibula (lower fourth), thie 12% 
Clavicle (acromial extremity), Sian Qe «6 
The following are the diameters. In general the original limits of the 
bone were pretty easily distinguished. The external line of demarcation 
in the femur and the posterior in the tibia are so indistinct that the diam- 
eters of the original bones are not wholly reliable. All the diameters are 
derived from longitudinal sections by a circular saw, and they are all at 
the middle unless otherwise stated. 
