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WILLIAM G. DOWNS, Jr., D.D.S., Ph.D.; RAYMOND M. McKEOWN, M.D

Arch Surg. 1932;25(1):108-121.

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Previous reports by Lindsay and Howes,¹ McKeown, Lindsay, Harvey and Lumsden,² and Downs and McKeown³ have dealt with the breaking strength and histology of fractured fibulae in rats on normal and synthetic diets. The present study deals similarly with variations observed microscopically in the fractured fibulae of these animals when the salt content of their diet was markedly altered.

METHOD

As in the previous studies, the animals were placed on the diet utilized for one week, at the expiration of which time the right fibula was fractured in the manner described before.¹ Two animals from each dietary group were killed at the following postoperative time periods: six, twelve, eighteen and twenty-four hours. Two animals were also killed one, two, three, four, five and six days postoperatively and thereafter at three day intervals to and including fifty-one days. After death the legs were removed, and the tibiae . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO; Davis and Geck Fellow in Surgery NEW HAVEN, CONN.

From the Department of Pathology and Department of Surgery, Yale Medical School.

Footnotes
The expenses of this investigation were defrayed in part by Davis and Geck, Inc.

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