Observations on the angle of the neck of the thigh-bone.




Humphry, Sir George Murray, 1820–1896.


London & Edinburgh : Williams and Norgate, 1889.

Journal : The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, Normal and Pathological, vol. 23.

Description : [4 l] pl., 387-389 p. ; ill.: 13 photo. figs. ; 8vo.

Photographs : 4 printed leaves with woodburytypes: specimens of femurs and the skeleton of a hydrocephalus.

Photographers : Valentine Blanchard & Colin Lunn.

Subject : Femur — Abnormities.

Notes :



Second of a two part study on abnormalities of the femur. The first part was published in the same number of the journal and titled, "The angle of the neck with the shaft of the femur at different periods of life and under different circumstances." The first two photographs represent the femur of a 103 year old woman and were reprinted in Professor Humphrey's monograph on old age.





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