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Necrosis of the humerus
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Necrosis of the humerus

Godart, Thomas

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Watercolour and ink drawing of necrosis of the shaft of a humerus, six weeks after a compound fracture. A line of florid granulations marks the separation between the white, dead and the living bone, upon which an abundance of new bone has been formed.

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