On the nature and treatment of some painful affections of bone / by Langston Parker.

  • Samuel William Langston Parker
Date:
1852
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Credit: On the nature and treatment of some painful affections of bone / by Langston Parker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be attended with any benefit; the wound, however, healed well, and the relief to pain was complete. It was exceedingly probable, that in Hartshorn’s case the state of the femur was like that of the tibia, from what was observed of the condition of the medullary canal at the time of the operation. There was some pain in the thigh before this, but the loss of blood at that time, and the discharge from the stump after, kept down for the time the inflamed or congested state of the medullary membrane. Having determined to perforate the femur, and pass a seton through it to prevent the cavity being too soon closed by callus, I had a trephine prepared with a long, narrow crown, sufficiently long to pass through the bone. While the patient was under the influence of chloroform, I made an incision, about two inches and a half long, in the inner side of the limb, about four inches above the extremity of the stump, divided the periosteum, and perforated the femur with the trephine ; I then passed a long, narrow seton needle, made for the purpose and armed with a thick web of cotton, through the hole in the femur, and brought it out on the outside of the thigh. There was a great discharge of black blood from the medullary canal of the femur when it was opened by the trephine, which gave relief to pain; and after
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