Cases of the excision of carious joints / by H. Park and P. F. Moreau ; with observations by James Jeffray.

  • Henry Park
Date:
1806
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Credit: Cases of the excision of carious joints / by H. Park and P. F. Moreau ; with observations by James Jeffray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    months; but, in the end, he walks without limping. Caries of the heel bone is by no means fo promifing. If its inferior furface be cut away, 'the heel can no longer fupport the weight of the body; and the patient is obliged to lean, thereafter, on the anterior part of the fole of the foot, till he accuftom himfelf to ufe a high- heel'd Ihoe. If the cafe be fuch, that the ten- do Achilles muil be deftroyed, 1t'''\^6uM b^ better to amputate the limb. ' I have performed this operation, once only. I fcobped Out the wliole inferior furface of the os calcis ; I pre- ferved the iniertion of the tendo Acliilles. ' Itli^d power of motion has been recovei-e^]'as'l^'ila^^ ftated, and a cure has beeii effecfied.'' -'■'•'J The bones of the metatarfus'ffeqiieA^y'^)e- cb'me carious. In general, the- ciileafe 'is 'pro- ttuced in them, from their connexion witlv tlie tarfal bones. If the root, or upper end only, of a metatarfal bone, be afFe£led, the'di'feafed part may be cut out, and the found part'miay Ije allowed to remain but. If tlie'airtenoVpart, or if the whole of the bone, be difeafed, it
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