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It made me feel like a murderer to tell one after another, who came to me covered with cankerous bone-eating sores, "I can do nothing"; and I was deeply touched by the simple statement of the Chief Pierre Squirrel, after a round of visits: "You see how unhappy we are, how miserable and sick.
It is somewhat strange that the boy hunter, Lucien, should have known this "fact," as I believe it is not in possession of the naturalists. I, myself, was made acquainted with it by one of the "feeders" of the superb collection in Regent's Park who had observed this propensity for bone-eating in a young African lammergeyer.
In the early stages, the marrow is transformed into a vascular connective tissue; its bone-eating functions are exaggerated, and the framework of the bone becomes rarefied, so that it bends under pressure as in osteomalacia. In course of time, however, new bone is formed in great abundance; it is at first devoid of lime salts, but later becomes calcified, so that the bones regain their rigidity.
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