Observations on the disease of the hip joint : to which are added some remarks on white swellings of the knee, the caries of the joint of the wrist and other similar complaints; the whole illustrated by cases, and engravings taken from the diseased parts / by Edward Ford.

  • Ford, Edward (Edward Bruce)
Date:
1794
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Credit: Observations on the disease of the hip joint : to which are added some remarks on white swellings of the knee, the caries of the joint of the wrist and other similar complaints; the whole illustrated by cases, and engravings taken from the diseased parts / by Edward Ford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 7* ] iuch circumftances, if irritation contribute towards procuring this convalefcence, I think it might be proper in fome cafes to renew it, which may be done by recurring to the practice of the antients, in the application of the cauftic to feveral frefh places, as near the feat of the difeafe as poffible. The choice of the part, to which the cauftic mould be applied, is of the utmoft importance. In the carious incurvation of the fpine, the moft proper place obvioully prefents itfelf, where the external convexity points out the internal malady. But in the hip joint, it is not eafy to fix on a fitua- tion, which does not interfere with the action of the mufcles, or which might not be inconvenient tCKthe patient, in the various pofitions of the body; and at the fame time it is neceffary, that the iffue be made, where it may have the moft imme- diate, and direct influence on the difeafed part. The hip joint is furrounded by large muf- cles on the pofteriour part, which would neceffarily
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