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Title: Lectures on orthopedic surgery
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Ridlon, John, 1852-1936 Thomas, Hugh Owen, 1834-1891 Jones, Robert, joint author
Subjects: Orthopedics
Publisher: Philadelphia, E. Stern & Co., Inc.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Fig. 201.—The position of the wrist for a weak grip
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Fig. 202.—The most advantageous angle for the wrist to give a strong grip. position, we promise improved power in the graspwhen the ankylosis has been attacked by the wrenchand the wrist placed in extension instead of flexion.The forearm is then suspended in a sling or halter.The management of abscesses is the same as at otherjoints. Excisions and erasions are no more demanded 247 than elsewhere, and, as at the tarsus, are more muti-lating in their results than at the larger joints. As alife-saving measure they may be demanded, as mayamputation. CARPAL, METACARPAL, AND PHALANGEALDISEASE. Chronic disease of bones of the hand, apart fromwrist-joint disease, is very rare except in children andyoung adults. In most cases inherited syphilis isacknowledged or reasonably suspected. In the carpusand metacarpus the bones become thickened, andabscesses develop early. In the fingers, it is usuallythe proxymal phalangeal joint that is affected; thedistal end of the first phalanx and the proxyma

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