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

  • Gulliver, George, 1804-1882.
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[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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    k/een a mass of the adventitious deposit and the external part F * the articular capsule. ] 1. c. Piece of a flexor tendon of one of the Angers, with of the muscular Abres attached to it. In the substance Mr Gulliver on Diseased Joints. 21 •me ' both some deposits of gouty matter are presented. From the same subject as the three preceding preparations. These concretions have been examined by Dr Davy, who und their composition in the dry state as follows: — Super-lithate soda, - 94.5 Phosphate and carbonate lime, - 4.5 Animal matter, chiefly cellular tissue, 1.0 100.0 From an offlcer of the 35th Regiment, aged 45, of temperate abits, who had undergone much active service. He was, some ears before his death, much affected with gout. Many of the ncretions were removed from his hands, and he could write on 3e table with his Angers. Ulcers also formed on his feet, which -sually discharged an ounce of the gouty matter in a fluid state l the twenty-four hours. V. Injuries. 4. 52. Elbow-joint, exhibiting dislocation of the radius and iLlna backwards behind the condyles of the humerus. The co- racoid process is lodged in the fossa olecranalis. The bra- > hi alts anticus muscle is partly lacerated, and the biceps is much ttretched. Case described by Mr Gulliver in the Medical Gazette, Vol. L p. 733. 71. Hip-joint, in which there is a fracture of the posterior art of the rim of the acetabulum, and displacement of the head tf the femur on the dorsum of the ilium. The round ligament i ruptured near to its attachment to the pit in the thigh-bone. A robust young man fell from the castle wall of Edinburgh ito Princes Street gardens, from the effects of which it is pro- •able that he instantly died. On dissection, the psoas and iliacus muscles were found on the stretch, the quadratus was ntire, the superior Abres of the obturator externus, and the •osterior part of the glutceus minimus lacerated ; the superior gemellus completely, and the pyriformis partially torn through, hese muscles being carried upwards by the head of the bone; he obturator interims was entirely rent asunder; the gemellus nferior was perfect. The limb was shortened, semiflexed, and n verted. Fort Pitt, 2d February 1837. PRINTED BY JOHN STARK, OLD ASSEMBLY CLOSE, EDINBURGH.