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The greatest surgeon of all time, who dominated medical thinking for nearly 1500 years.

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A Simple Guide to Osteomyelitis 27                 The back of the child showing the large abscess. Note also that the girl would have an increased likelyhood of developing bronchopneumonia due to her compressed ribs and decreased vital capacity. There is also a possibility of her also having miliary or other tuberculous involvement of the lungs, as well as tuberculosis elsewhere. She required decompression of her spinal cord by the author through a left mid thoracotomy approach. This operation required removal of the pus, bone and disc pressing on the cord, and grafting of the defect with the 7th left rib which was excised at the time of the thoracotomy. She made a full recovery from her paraplegia.           < Previous Main  Next >

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