Remarks on interstitial absorption of the neck of the thigh-bone / by Benjamin Bell.

  • Bell, Benjamin, 1802-1843.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Remarks on interstitial absorption of the neck of the thigh-bone / by Benjamin Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    currence. Indeed, until the middle of last century, no account had been published of the “ post mor- teiitf examination of persons in whom fracture of the neck of the femur had taken place during life. In the writings of many of the older surgeons, we find fracture of the neck of the Thigh-bone stated as being not an uncommon accident; but they all agree in asserting, that it constitutes an in¬ jury of the most severe character, and of the most difficult treatment. The ancients do not, however, appear to have drawn any line of distinction between those frac¬ tures which take place entirely within the orbicular ligament, and those which implicate also the great trochanter. So early as the year 1579, we meet with a most accurate description of the characteristic symptoms of fracture at the neck of the thigh-bone, and a judicious method of treating that accident laid down. The author to whom I allude is Ambrose Parey, whose writings, at the period in which he flourished, tended much to the improvement of scientific surgery *. For the sake of those who do * Paulus de ^Egina is the first author who alludes to the fracture as occurring near the head of the femur; but Pa¬ rey, as is stated in the text, is the first who pointed out the distinction between the transverse and oblique varieties. Paul de ./Egine is mentioned by L/Eveille' in a work of his entitled, Nouvelle Doctrine Clururgicale, &c. Paris, 1812, vol. ii. p. 289-
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