Fehling. - Weitere Beiträge zur Lehre von der Osteomalakie. (Arch. F. Gyn., Bd. XLVIII, Hft. 3). More to the doctrine of osteomalacia

Review the results of his own observations, as well as the literature of the last years, F. in the following way draws us the state of the issue of osteomalacia. Bone softening is not a disease inherent exclusively to the pelvic bones; in difficult cases, the bones of the spine, thighs, thorax, even the upper limbs and the skull are also affected. In essence, osteomalacia is an inflammatory disease: the decay of bone tissue takes over growth. What determines the dissolution of calcium salts remains unclear: the hypothesis of the presence of free acid in the tissues of the bone marrow is hardly probable.