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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    r 3s ] taken J to relieve the hicoriveniencies it has- already occafioned, and to prevent the future calamities likely to arife from the^ difeafe, if left to its natural courfe. In the confideration of a remedy, or mode of treatment, adequate to remove a complaint which is either a difpofition to caries, or a real caries, a£lually exifling in the bones of the hip joint; it would be ufelefs to enume- rate the great diverfity, and contrariety of fomentations, plaifters, and embrocations, which have been tried, repeated, and recom- mended by regulars, and irregulars, in the pra6lice of phyfic, and furgery. Internal medicines have not been more fuc- cefsful. Hemlock and burnt fponge, prepara- tions of mercury and antimony, have been all employed to remedy this difeafe, without the record of a fingle fortunate event. Nor have tonic remedi^.s been ufed with greater advan- tage. The cold bath, fo far as my experience goes, has been uniformly detrimental, without the fliadow of an exception. The Peruvian bark does not feem to poflefs any powerful