Clinical notes upon two years' surgical work in the Liverpool Royal Infirmary / by W. Mitchell Banks.
- William Mitchell Banks
- Date:
- 1884
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Clinical notes upon two years' surgical work in the Liverpool Royal Infirmary / by W. Mitchell Banks. 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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![working men, by xuiiting the two limbs of the knee-splint into a j)in below. It is sold for a guinea, and for strength and lightness i'rtnnt)t be beaten. Even to more expensive forms of artificial limbs the principle can be adapted as is seen in figure 2, which is in- tended for an amputation below the knee-joint. The weight of the bod}- is borne by the pehac ring, an artificial joint corresponds with the knee Hexuro, and the fore-part of the foot is cut out of solid rubber, so as to give spring and elasticity without using compli- cating cords and pulleys. EXCISIONS or JOINTS. TABLE OF EXCISIONS AND RESULTS. Sex. Disease. Joint. Result. Cause of Death. M. 12 Morbus coxa?, Hip, ... Died, Exhaustion. M. 40 Gelatinous disease. Knee,... Recovered. F. 49 Do. Knee,... Died, Exhaustion and bed- sores. M. 52 Disease arising from injury, Elbow, Recovered. F. 12 Gelatinous disease. Elbow, Recovered. M. 10 Do. -H-ith destruction of cartilages. Shoulder Recovered. In tlie few excision cases perfonned there were hardly any points of interest. Tlie hip case was of two years duration, and, wiien the joint was excised, the head and neck of the fenmr were furious and much eroded, tlie acetabulum was ])erforated and the left ])ul>ic ramus was Ijare. Tlie ])atient (bed from exhaustion between three and four weeks after tlie operation. In the two knee ca.scs the (h'sea.se apparently began spontaneously—at all](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22294806_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
