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Title: The Cleveland medical journal
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine Medicine
Publisher: Cleveland : The Cleveland Medical Journal Company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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ve testing of the ash showeda large quantity of calcium phosphate and a little calcium carbonate witha very slight trace of magnesium. This agrees with Wells1, who statesthat the composition of the inorganic salts in calcified areas in the bodyseems to be practically the same, if not identical, whether the salts arelaid down under normal conditions (ossification) or under pathologicconditions, \\z. : Mag, phosp. Calc. carb. Calc. phosp.Pathologic calcification (Human tuberculosis) 1.2 10.1 87.8 Normal ossification (Human bone) .. 1.57 10.1 87.4 Report of X-Ray Findings: The shadow made by a thin section ofthe calcified tumor was very dense (Fig. 3), while with rays of the samepenetrating power, bones of the finger, taken for comparison, showed onlya slight shadow. No bony structure could be observed in the sectionsubmitted to the X-ray examination. My thanks are due to Prof. HarryI lower, of the Carnegie Institute. Pittsburg, Pa., for the X-ray plate. 40O The Cleveland Medical Journal
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FIG. 2 Wtttv tK mm* 9B flfe*t £ r■Ob mm • f HEPyi3£ FIG. 3 Ludlow—Calcification of Uterine Fibromyomata 401 A review of the writings upon this subject from the timeof Hippocrates is given by Everett2 who found only 51 casesmentioned; and of these it is questionable whether 18 of themare not reproduced with alterations, leaving only 33 well au-thenticated cases. The earlier cases were simply reported as uterine stones,thus Hippocrates relates the case of a Thessalian maid of 60summers, who during her younger years suffered great pain dur-ing intercourse. No complete history of the case is given butwe learn that the patient, after having partaken freely of leeks,was seized with intense uterine pains, after which she was de-livered of a rough stone the size of a childs head. Louis in 1753 had collected 18 cases. Velpeau reportedthree cases. De Coze removed a calcified fibroid with obstetricforceps, the operation being followed by fatal hemorrhage.Saxinger4 found a stone the size

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