Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1918 — Functions of Marrow. [ARTICLE]

Functions of Marrow.

A writer in the London Lancet suggests that marrow has a twofold function, not only to nourish, the bone, but to supply a most important internal secretion. As bearing this out, he ? cltes the mortality of 98 per cent in “prlmary” cases of amputation high up the thlglrwhen the patient is in the prime of life, with “secondary” cases in which the mortality is only 60 per cent In the secondary cases, where a diseased condition has existed for some time, there is less shock, according to the writer, because the system has become gradually accustomed to getting along without the marrow In the thigh bone, which contains one-sixth of tbs total amount in all the bones.