Spontaneous dislocation of the head of the femur into the ischiatic notch, occurring in morbus coxarius / by James R. Wood.

  • James Rushmore Wood
Date:
[1854?]
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Credit: Spontaneous dislocation of the head of the femur into the ischiatic notch, occurring in morbus coxarius / by James R. Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    unique character of the case, it being at least, the only one of dislocation into the ischiatic notch that I have ever seen or heard of in morbus coxarius; and also, because it has been recently proved that any sponta- neous luxation (as the word is commonly defined), in the course of hip- joint disea/e, is a very rare event; so rare, indeed,that every occurrence of it, shown indubitably by the postmortem, should be publicly record- ed fur the benefit of the profession. It may, here be stated, that there