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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    [ 55 ] proceeding from a ftrumous conftitution, and in that enlargement caufed by external acci- dents, the beneficial efficacy of bliftcrs^ re- peatedly applied round the afFefted part, is inconteftible. Under this application, the en- largement obvioufly fubfides, the crepitation between the bones, the confequence of abra- fion of the cartilages, ceafes to be felt, when the blifter begins to operate, the ufe of the joint is effeftually recovered, and anchylofis- prevented, De Haen in his treatife '' De Morbo Cox- *' ario, affirms it, as a certainty, from his own experience, and that of Boerhaave, that many patients have been relieved in this dif- eafe, by the repeated applications of blifters ; he regrets however, that every prognoftic is doubtful, the utmoft uncertainty arifing, as he thinks, from the great variety of caufes, which may give birth to the difeafe, and from the diverlity of the parts which may be af- feded. The real nature of the evil, he fays, is abfolutely unknown, any father than as it is