The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-05 00:00:00

GE7TING BONE OU7 OF 7ISSU.E.

Dr. Fhilipeaux narrates a case which occurred in the
practice of M. Blandin. A young man became a patient of
the Hotel Dieu on account of a flstulous wound in the
upper and front part of the chest, and in the direction of
the left collar bone. On probing the wound, M. Blandin
found that it proceeded from a caries of nearly all the in-
terior half of the bone. Emollients and dissolving po-
mades having no effect upon the obstinate malady, and
the patient growing meagre and resolving to risk the
worst, an operation was determined on. Familiar with
the results of the physiological experiments of M.
Flourens on the
periosteum, or surrounding tissues, M.
Blandin made up his mind to be guided by them in his sur-
gical operations. He would try his utmost skill to extir-
pate the decayed bond and preserve the periosteum. He
made an incision into the upper surface of the collar-bone,
from the middle to the internal or sternal part, at each end
of which he made another incision resembling a T with two
branches. Then, laying the collar-bone bare without and
within, ho inserted an instrument made on purpose to pro-
tect the periosteum and the soft parts around it. Suc-
ceeding in these precautions, he successfully extracted the
diseased bone, and disjointed it at its sternal end. Half the
collar-bone having been extirpated, the patient begged the
surgeon to examine the remaining half, as, if it were tainted,
he would prefer losing the whole at once to undergoing
another operation. When the surgeon examined the re-
maining half of the bone, he was obliged to 1 ell the patient
that it was seriously attacked by caries, and ought to be ex-
tirpated. The remaining half of the collar-bone was extir-
pated, and thus the whole bone was extirpated. So success-
fully, however, had the operations been performed, that a
short time afterwards the young man left the hospital cured.
Eight months later this patient returned to the hospital for
another disease, and all the students had opportunities of
examining him. A new collar-bone had been made by the
periosteum ; and this new bone was already almost perfect,
and the young man could execute every natural movementlife
with his arm, nearly as well as ever ho could in his
Tre • a to
Still more marvels. The series of experiments from
to Duhamel, from Duhamel to Troja. and from
peirios..
Belcher.
Flourens, has been continued by M. (3_
esd t will
p always
o per
ios
Oilier. The
bone. If
teum, let us always remember,
healthy, and kept healthy,
be-
come a sound bone, in the most unexpecte an
dd extraordi-
nary circumstances.. M. de muscles in
twisting it around different ways,
teum, and,
the most curiosly various forms • bones
obtained bones of . ..
bones in spiral shapes, bones lltiohristomockfins lbothnt
es, even in the
in circular forms,
figure of eight.afterbeing
Within three or four days
off, a rag.oz wins')
lanted periosteum has become A _
bone.
bit of periosteum taken completely away from the bone, and
placed under the skin, has ossified, producing bony secre-
tions and tissues. For the membrane is to the bone, it
might almost be said, what the seed is to the plant, and the
egg to the animal,—.Dickens's "411 the Year Bound."

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