Description of the diseased joints in the Museum of the Army Medical Department at Chatham / by George Gulliver.
- Gulliver, George, 1804-1882.
- Date:
- [1837]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![partly destroyed ; it is displaced downwards and forwards so as to incroach on the thyroid foramen, and the acetabulum is rei markably extended in this direction. Some adventitious bones deposited on the inferior surface of the neck of the femur, near to its junction with the shaft. ]. Hip-joint, in which the ulcerative process has extended from the cartilages deeply into the cancelli of the bones, and completely through the bottom of the acetabulum. The round ligament is destroyed, and the synovial membrane and contigu- ous soft parts are thickened and consolidated together. 2. Hip-joint, the surfaces of which are throughout carious. Some new bone is deposited on the external surface of the bone, at the posterior and upper part of the acetabulum. Robert Cooper, 10th Hussars, was twenty months under treatment for the disease. It was caused by a fall from his horse. 1. 179. Hip-joint, throughout carious. A small portion of the bottom of the acetabulum is destroyed, and around the outer part of its margin a considerable quantity of adventitious bone is deposited, which extends in the form of a crust over nearly the whole fossa ilii. From James Law, 92d Regiment, aged 27. The disease was of about twenty months duration. Suppuration was very abund- ant for some time before death. 1. 181. A section of the head and neck of the thigh-bone, the i former carious, and the whole a little more spongy than in the j healthy bone. From the preceding preparation, No. 179. 1. 191. Hip-joint, the surfaces of which are throughout ca- rious, and the greater part of the bottom of the acetabulum de- ficient. On the outer surface of the ilium and ischium, near to the socket, is a scanty deposit of adventitious bone. From William Bentley, 9th Regiment, who was reported to f have been attacked at sea with acute rheumatism, succeeded by | affections of the hip and knee-joint, and pulmonary disease. 42. Knee-joint, the articular surfaces of which are throughout | carious. Removed by amputation, from John Close, 95th regiment. On examining the posterior part of the joint, the popliteal artery was found to pass through one of the sinuses, uninjured. C. Caries, complicated with partial Necrosis of the articular surfaces. 14. Hip-joint, the head of the femur partly destroyed by caries; . and a portion of necrosed bone, about an inch and a half long and three quarters broad, presents at the bottom of the accta- , bulum. The dead part is nearly detached, and its articular surface is smooth. On the external surface of the bone, postc-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22384261_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
