Multiple fractures of femur


Watercolour medical illustration depicting multiple fractures of the femur. It has the alternative reference number 1385, 191 and P18 on the front. The Richmond Hospital Museum reference is C.a.11. The entry for this in P263/1 pg. 19 reads 'Fractures of the femur from malignant osseous. Sections of the bone'. The handwritten note on the back reads 'D.e.4 Fractures of the neck, trochanter & shaft of the femur. Fragilitas ossium. [?] of tissue. Thos. Murphy aet 41. The fracture of the shaft has been united with great deformity & uncommon deposition of new osseous matter of a spongy & very vascular nature. The fractures which seem to have been the result of fragilitas ossium occurred from slight exertions of the patient in moving the limb in bed to which he had been long confined.'

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