Parisian chirurgical journal / By Monsieur Desault ... Translated into English by R. Gosling.
- Date:
- 1793
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Parisian chirurgical journal / By Monsieur Desault ... Translated into English by R. Gosling. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![( nà y îtifFnefs t>F the joint foon fubfided, and, in three weeks, he was capable of bending, at a right angle* the leg on the thigh. Fie was difcharged from the hofpital at this time, with a certain aiïurance of foon recovering* by means of exercife, the perfed ufe of his joint. Cafe of a fractured Jhigh. [By Mr. Lanzerez* Surgeon to the Hotel Diem] DRIGNAUD, a woman, 83 years old, fell dowri • ftairs on the 27th of Odober, 1790, and fradured the lower part of her right thigh, in a fimilar diredion to the preceding fradure. Thofe, who went to her afliftance, fupported the middle of the thigh in fuch a manner, that the lower part was bent by the ■weight of the leg. This unfortunate woman was thus brought to her room, and placed croffways on a bed, the edge of which correfponded to the fradured part. In this fittiation fhe remained more than an hour, and then was brought from her lodging, which was on the third (lory, (with as little precaution as they had fupported her](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3187003x_0244.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
