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Title: American practice of surgery : a complete system of the science and art of surgery
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bryant, Joseph D. (Joseph Decatur), 1845-1914 Buck, Albert H. (Albert Henry), 1842-1922
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Publisher: New York : W. Wood and company
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Fig. 232.—Shows the Same Restriction whenthe body is bent toward the right side. (Orig-inal.) 526 AMERICAN PRACTICE OF SURGERY ual occupations, as well as the traumatisms of such sports as tennis, baseball,and polo, tend to the production of such lesions in the elbow. The depositsmost commonly occur along the olecranon and the coronoid. i Figs. i-M and 235).They are easily demonstrable in the x-ray picture. Pain in the joint when it isused, with the preservation of a considerable degree of free motion, while at the
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Pig. 233. —Shows a Calcification of the Subdeltoid Bursa, evidently representative of the hyper-trophic process which was in evidence in other parts of the patients body. (Original. same time the radius of mobility is restricted to a very considerable degree inboth flexion and extension, are the chief objective and subjective signs. Intreatment the cardinal principle employed should be surgical rest in a removable,fixative apparatus of leather, plaster, or celluloid. In the occupational forms oithe hypertrophic lesion, arthrotomy and removal of the spurs from the olecranonand coronoid processes have yielded very good results, both as to the relief ofthe symptoms and also as to the improvement of function. NON-TUBERCULOUS INFLAMMATIONS OF JOINTS. 527 Wrist and Fingers.—The carpus is practically exempt from these lesions.To the fingers belongs the distinction of having Heberden first describe thisdisease in them in the seventeenth century. In this situation the diseaseattacks the te

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