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THIS handy volume is a reprint of a portion of a larger work by its author (“A Practical Treatise on Traumatic Separation of the Epiphyses.” London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1898) which deals with the skiagraphy of the wrist and hand, as revealing in situ the stages in ossification of their supporting skeleton. There are nineteen skiagraphs in all, which represent successive phases in the process named at periods between and including the first and seventeenth years, and as a frontispiece there is added a woodcut delineating the isolated hand skeleton at fifteen and a half years, with each bone fully named for comparison with the body of the work. The skiagraphs, with the exception of that of the hand of the author's son, taken by Mr. Swinton, are the work of Mr. C. Webster, and all are excellent and among the best we have seen. A short introductory account is given of the anatomy and growth periods of the several bony centres, with accurate measurements where necessary; and each illustration is accompanied by a brief statement of its salient features. Since, concerning these, some of the author's observations are at variance with what is customarily taught, his book cannot fail to be a useful work of reference both to the anthropotomist and surgical anatomist. The author remarks in his preface that he hopes “in the near future all the bones of the body may be thus portrayed”; and if he should be as successful with the pelvis as he has been with the hand, we would earnestly recommend him and his publishers to lose no opportunity of making the work known to the general public, and of thus forcing home facts which may perchance be brought to bear upon the too prevalent tendency towards premature cycling by young children, which, if not checked by some such salutary means, would seem likely to threaten the rising generation with disaster.
Skiagraphic Atlas: showing the Development of the Bones of the Wrist and Hand.
For the use of students and others. By John Poland. Pp. 40 and Plates. (London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1898.)
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Skiagraphic Atlas: showing the Development of the Bones of the Wrist and Hand. Nature 59, 100 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059100b0
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