Lectures on syphilitic osteitis and periostitis / by John Hamilton.

Date:
1874
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Credit: Lectures on syphilitic osteitis and periostitis / by John Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    late symptom, though I believe the bone in this, as well as every case of periostitis, to be simultaneously affected. There was no indication from swelling that it was so. Periostitis of Sternum., Femur, and Ossa Ilia,— Case taken by Mr. Frazer.—Roger Quinan, aged 26 years, admitted into No. 5 ward, September 8th, 1846, for syphilitic periostitis. On the centre of the sternum is a very tender spot, the size of a half crown : there is a similar spot, but rather more extensive, on the inner surface of the right femur, just above the condyle: also on the outer surface of the right os ilium, beginning about an inch from the anterior superior spine, and extending for three inches along the crest of the bone, and covering a space two inches wide. The inflammation of the periosteum is acute, the slightest pressure causing him to jump from one side of the bed to the other. The left os ilium is similarly affected, but not so severely. About four years before, he got a chancre on the dorsum of the glans. He had no treatment, and it continued sore for three or four months; it has left a depressed cicatrix. He never took any mer- cury, that he is aware of. The pains in the bones of the sternum and femur are of a year’s duration, in the ilia of four months. He was dismissed cured at the end of three weeks (Sept. 30th), by the use of leeches to the ilia, followed by blisters and the B 2