As the title indicates, I am not writing a systematic paper or one that attempts to cover the subject of osteomyelitis of the frontal bone in any way approaching thoroughness. I shall pick and choose, perhaps from old habit leaning toward the dramatic, stressing the points from which I have learned something, and those which strengthen convictions which have been gradually and somewhat laboriously built up in my mind on this subject during the past five or six years. During this time I have seen, I will not say, the full light but some light. In two of the cases which I am to comment on, large portions of the frontal bone were removed in one piece. One measured 2 by 2 1/2 inches, the other 3 by 2 1/2 inches. It was possible, therefore, to get large sections for histologic study. Before, I have had small pieces taken from
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Harris P. Mosher (1936) studied this question.