Horsley's wax.
Anyone who has seen a skull bone flap being turned or the sternum being divided at a median sternotomy will be well aware of the considerable bleeding that can occur in these procedures from the highly vascular red bone marrow inside these structures. They will also, no doubt, have seen the surgeon stem the bleeding by smearing wax--Horsley's bone wax--over the cut surfaces of the bone.
Ellis
Harold
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University of London, Department of Anatomy, Guy's Hospital, London.
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