Observations on the disease of the hip joint : to which are added, some remarks on white swelling of the knee, the caries of the joint of the wrist and other similar complaints : the whole illustrated by cases, and engravings taken fron the diseased parts / by the late Edward Ford.

  • Edward Ford
Date:
1810
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Credit: Observations on the disease of the hip joint : to which are added, some remarks on white swelling of the knee, the caries of the joint of the wrist and other similar complaints : the whole illustrated by cases, and engravings taken fron the diseased parts / by the late Edward Ford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    [ 85] vantage, and merits continuance for the good it produces—if the prefent mode of laying on a cauftic over a ftrumous difeafe of the bones, or other parts, is ftill to be confidered as beneficial, it is fit it (hould be known, that it may be purfucd in a mode, more fimple, more efFeftual, and expeditious; lefs painful, and lefs liable to exite apprehenfion of pain, by means of the feptic ftone. If this preparation be merely pencilled or rubbed on the part, where the iffue is to be made, it will at all times efFeft as much as could be done by the a£tual cautery, by the moxa, or by laying on the cauftic pafte, and fufFering it to remain on the part for feveral hours. This operation gives little, if any terror to the patient, and never pro- duces that intenfity, or continuance of pain, which ufually accompanies the application of a cauftic in the common manner, and it will always, under judicious management, accomplilh, with advantage and certainty, every objed which is to be efFefted. by cauftic.