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DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. 



form, and have its texture weakened. Figs. 116 and 111, which 

 were also obtained from Prof. Cressy, show the great amount of 



Fig. 775;— A Sectional View ol Fig. 771. An Exact Drawing of Specimen Showing Grain 

 of New Growth of Soft, Spongy Horn. 



change and absorption that may be produced from this cause. They 

 represent the superior and inferior views of a bone that had been 

 very much absorbed and turned up at the outer edge, cut in two, 

 and united to sections of an ordinary healthy bone, to show the ex- v 



treme change produced in its 

 form. The part outside the 

 dotted lines was so porous that 

 it could be looked through: as 

 plainly as through the texture 

 of coarse cloth, and its fiber 

 was so weak, that it, would 

 crumble between the fingers. 

 Fig. 118, also . obtained from 

 Prof, Cressy, is another in- 

 teresting specimen showing 

 the upper view of another 

 bone of the same character. 

 Fig. 119 is a side view of this 

 bone, taken on an exact scale, 

 showing the remarkable bend- 

 ' ing up of the edges, and .its 

 thinness, it being' not over 



Fig. 776. — Posterior Sectional View of Pedal 

 Bone, Showing Changed and Weakened Con- 

 dition from the Effect of Inflammation. 



