On the pathological basis of the treatment of joint diseases / by Henry G. Davis, M.D.

  • Henry Gassett Davis
Date:
1862
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    [From the American Mbdical Mor.THXY for NoTember, 1862.] ON THE PATHOLOGICAL BASIS OF THE totMut d faint §i$am. By HENRY G. DAVIS, M.D. (Read before the New York Academy of Medicine.) For many years my attention has been directed to the treatment of diseases of the joints, and I have been led gradually to adopt views differing materially from those generally received by the pro. fession, in relation to the causes operating to destroy, not only the cartilages, but the bones upon which they rest. This difference of opinion has produced a corresponding change of treatment of the diseases in and about the joints; and I might say that no further evidence is required of the correctness of the theory, than that afforded by the success of the treatment based upon it. In investigating this subject, it has been difficult to procure from books direct evidence upon the point which it will be my endeavor to establish, for the reason, that those who have examined and re- ported cases, have not so recorded their observations as to give the desired information. Not recognizing the causes which are assigned in this paper as operating to produce the lesions discovered, they have given but a partial narratiou of the facts their examination would have revealed, had their attention been directed to the point under consideration.