The first lines of the practice of surgery. ... Being an elementary work for students, and a concise book of reference for practitioners / By Samuel Cooper.

  • Samuel Cooper
Date:
1809
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Credit: The first lines of the practice of surgery. ... Being an elementary work for students, and a concise book of reference for practitioners / By Samuel Cooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ficial examiner. The most common directions, in which the carpal bones are dislocated, are backward and for- ward. The first kind of case is much (he most frequently met with in practice. 1 he man’s hand becomes consi- derably distorted, whenever one of the lateral ligaments of the wrist is ruptured ; but, the luxations thus aris- ing, are hardly ever complete. There is never much difficulty in reducing dislocations of the wrist, as soon as moderate extension has been made. When the articular surfaces have been put into a proper situation,in regard to each other, a splint should be ap- plied along the inside of the forearm, and palm of the hand, in order to keep the wrist from moving. 1 need hardly mention the propriety of wearing a sling. When the thumb, or fingers are dislocated, they are to be reduced, and incased and supported in pasteboard, the hand and forearm being kept in a sling, till the cure is effected. DISLOCATIONS OF THE THIGH K£>NE. The most frequent case is that, in which the head of the os femoris is dislocated on the obturator foramen, that is, downward and forward. This kind of accident is the most common, because the brim of the acetabulum is not so high in the above direction, and the ligamentunv teres is in- serted so near the notch,which faces the obturator foramen, that the head of the bone may descend in the above way, without the ligament itself being ruptured. The case, which ranks next in regard to frequency, is that, in which the head of the thigh bone is dislocated up- ward and outward on the dorsum of the ilium, the great trochanter being situated forward, and the limb being turned inward. The most rare kind of dislocation is that, m which the head of the os femoris is thrown on the dorsum ol the ilium, in such a manner, that the trochanter major projects back-