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Identifier: diseasesofhipkne00thom (find matches)
Title: Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle joints and their treatment by a new and efficient method
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Thomas, Hugh Owen, 1834-1891
Subjects: Hip joint Knee Ankle Hip Joint Knee Ankle Joint Diseases
Publisher: Liverpool : T. Dobb & Co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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her says that an abscess formed in my hip about twenty years ago, after scarlet fever; and then I had a fall about three years before I came to you, sir; and after that I had more pain than I had before, when walking..I do not think I can explain myself any better. With kind regards from, yours ever, . In my early practice I often placed (and Ibelieve it is the practice of others in cases ofthis character) the patient under chloroform,divided the contracted tendons, and forciblyextended the limb—a process which, thoughnot very risky to the patient, is very painful.Yet, since I have practised this expectant method,of allowing the body to become unfolded by mereposition, the patient has had no pain, andthe result has been all that the surgeon coulddesire, and has not necessitated as much time asthe previous practice. The deformity here wasgreat, and had existed fifteen years, at least;this case was a crucial test of this method. Case No. 7.—J. P., fourteen years of age, was Plate 11
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41 brought to me by his parents, in May, 1875,suffering from diseased hip joint, at the des-tructive stage, abscesses having formed, andsinuses communicating with the joint. Plate 11 is a carefully copied engraving of thephotograph of the patient taken after eightmonths treatment in a large hospital,previous to my examination of him. On exam-ination I found the patient in the conditionwhich is so well illustrated by the artist, namely,with flexed thigh, and curved spine, with largeabscess and ulceration over the trochanter, andinability to reach the ground by three inches.This boy had the best of advice duringeight months. The disease had existedabout one month previous to his admission intothe charity. The treatment he had received,was, from his own report, the long splint, at first,and latterly the weight and pulley. This patient was placed in my appliance, andin the short space of three weeks all deformity 42 had been removed, and he was free from pain,but will require a long perio

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