Description of the diseased joints in the Museum of the Army Medical Department at Chatham / by George Gulliver.

  • Gulliver, George, 1804-1882.
Date:
[1837]
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Credit: Description of the diseased joints in the Museum of the Army Medical Department at Chatham / by George Gulliver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    1, very hard, and highly polished. Around this ivory-like ; art there is a deposit of adventitious bony matter. From Dr Davy’s analysis of the shaft, of the adventitious , one, and of the polished ivory-like articular surface, the fol- wing results appear, viz. Composition of the shaft, Phosphate of lime, &c. 58.8 Animal matter, 41.2 Composition of the polished articular surface, Phosphate of Lime, &c. 54.2 Animal matter, 45.8 100.0 e, around the articular surface, Phosphate of Lime, &c. 48.8 Animal matter, 51.2 100.0 31. Hip-joint, exhibiting shortening of the neck of the tliigh- .ne, expansion and flattening of its head, and a corresponding iteration of form in the acetabulum. The cartilage on the ad of the bone is of the usual thickness, as is also that of the tetabulum. -A section of the femur has been made, and the counter-part to be found among the diseases of bone, Div. ]. No. 108. [Case of Fox, described by Mr Gulliver,—Edin. Med. and rg. Journ. No. 128. 52. Hip-joint, presenting shortening of the neck of the thigh- ne, flattening and expansion of its head, -with a correspondfno- mge of form m the acetabulum. The head of the bone is 1 arged t0 a grater degree than the acetabulum, and the Jat- is very shallow. (Case of Lynn, described by Mr Gulliver,—Edin. Med. and i rrg. Journ. No. 129. 46 Great toe, directed outwards beneath the other toes, at lght angle with its metacarpal bone. IFrom a lunatic pensioner, aged 73. IB. Caries 14-7. Head t carious. of the articular surfaces, the bones otherwise sound. of the thigh-bone, the surface of which is through- Henry Warrington Waggon Train, aged 19, had his horse I on him four months previous to his admission into hospital, I injured the right side of his chest. The hip disease after- „*,l7Ir?rA6UpJpUra,ion took l,lace “ the joint, and the case f ■ , d,ssection, there was much tubercular depo- tound m the lungs. 1 B • Hip-joint, generally carious. The head of the femur is