Case of consecutive excision of both knee-joints for disease, terminating in recovery / by James Barron.

  • Barron, James, 1954-
Date:
1878
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Case of consecutive excision of both knee-joints for disease, terminating in recovery / by James Barron. 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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    of the flexor tendons divided. The patella was removed in both operations. The case progressed even more favourably than on the first occasion. The drainage tube was removed on December the 10th, the sixty-first day of the treatment, and bony union being complete on January the 18th, 1878, the hundredth day, he was allowed to be up for the first time; the two operations having been brought to a successful termination within a period of seven months, or 212 days. The difference in the length of the two legs scarcely amounts to the eighth of an inch,. The appearance of the legs after operation is seen in the figs.