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Observations on a peculiar Condition of the Bones of two Insane Patients who had fractured Ribs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Edward Latham Ormerod
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The frequent occurrence of fracture of the ribs in the inmates of Lunatic Asylums has recently attracted much attention. And the more attention has been called to it, the more frequent does the occurrence seem to have become. This fact alone would make one suspect that the injury was not due to improper violence on the part of the attendants. Without, however, entering into this question, I propose here merely to record the results of my examination of the bones of two patients who lately died in the Sussex County Lunatic Asylum with fractured ribs. Whether or not further observation may justify a wider extension of the conclusion that the bones break so readily because they are diseased, at least I cannot hesitate to adopt it in the present instance.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 16 , Issue 76 , January 1871 , pp. 571 - 580
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1871 

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∗ I was not aware, when I was engaged in these observations, that the subject had been investigated by the late Mr. Dalrymple (“Dublin Quarterly Journal,” New Series, yol. ii. p. 85) and Mr. Durham (“Guy's Hospital Reports, ' Third Series, vol x. p. 348). I am gratified to find my independent conclusions con firmed in their papers. Only I must differ from Mr. Dalrymple in regarding the large bone cells without fringes as young and active, not effete organisms. Google Scholar

∗ Virohow,; “Cellular Pathologie,” S. 379, 2te Auflage Google Scholar

∗ On Fractured Ribs in the Insane, by S. W. D. Williams, M.D., Medical Superintendent of tbe Sussex Lunatic Asylum, Hayward's Heath.—Tite Lancet, Sept. 3rd, 1870. Google Scholar

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