An account of a new method of treating diseases of the joints of the knee and elbow, in a letter to Mr. Percival Pott / [H. Park].

  • Henry Park
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[1783]
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Credit: An account of a new method of treating diseases of the joints of the knee and elbow, in a letter to Mr. Percival Pott / [H. Park]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ” ) that I have had occafion to mention com- pound diflocations, it may not be thought out of place to relate a cafe of this kinds which fell under the care of Mr. Wainman, of Sfaipton, in Craven, twenty-three years ago, who has the greater merit, as that mode of treating compound diflocations was, at that time, but little praclifed. This cafe, which, in juftice to Mr. Wainman, as well as to mankind in general, ought to have been publifhed long fince, he defcribes as cc a recent luxation of the Cubitus, occafioned “ by a fall from a horfe in full fpeed, which <c forced the Os Humeri through the com- €C mon integuments a confiderable length <c into the ground, and the bone was quite <c denudated; and adds, there was not a pof- cc Ability of reducing it, and 1 thought it cc moft eligible to take off the limb, which “ the family objected to. I called in Dr. “ Taylor, who was of my opinion, but it <c would not be complied with. We then “ judged it beft to faw off the Os Humeri, cc which
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