An appendix to the Observations upon Mr. Pott's General remarks on fractures / [Thomas Kirkland].

  • Kirkland, Thomas, 1722-1798
Date:
1771
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Credit: An appendix to the Observations upon Mr. Pott's General remarks on fractures / [Thomas Kirkland]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    s may be known by the inner condyle of the femur being neither elevated nor de- prefled) a gentle extenfion, and making a lever of the bone fee ms to be all that is neceffary.—But if it does not lie already in this direction, it feems right to pufh the ancle outward or inward, fo as to bring the knee into its natural pofition, or (if this cannot be done) to prefs the knee a little outward before thefe fteps are taken.—And laftly, when the great trochanter is felt with its natural protu¬ berance, the ancle may be puflied out¬ ward, to direft the head of the bone into the bottom of the focket, if it is not im¬ mediately forced in by the adtion of the mufcles.—In the fame fituation too, wher the thigh is diflocated outward, but noi beyond the brim of its acetabulum, w< fee (p. 56) it may eafily be reduced, b] only moving it, and prefling upon th< great trochanter.—-But when the head o the bone is under the glutaeus minimus, i greater extenfion muft be made with tb«