Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle joints and their treatment by a new and efficient method (1875) (14595752029)

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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hat period often reaches a right 16 angle. If now the healthy extremity be released,the patient, if one who has suffered but ashort period, may be able to extend the diseasedlimb perfectly straight, so as to conceal theflexion, but if the surgeon places his handunder the spine, he will detect the curve asdepicted in plate 5, which curve is producedin the tilting of the pelvis, and obscures theslight contraction that is invariably present,even in the earliest stage, and so falsify anExamination by the old method. This flexionexplains the peculiar limp these sufferers have atthe commencement, a false shortening only.Thus if we suppose the pelvis to be represented byA, plate 4, Jig. 1, the ground by BC, and that FErepresents the lower extremity, then on anymovement of the limb forwards, such as repre-sented by FG, which being of the same length asFE, FG would be too short to reach the groundBC. To make FG reach the ground, the pelvisis tilted forward, and this can only be done by Plate 4

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