An account of a new method of treating diseases of the joints of the knee and elbow, in a letter to Mr. Percival Pott / by H. Park.

  • Henry Park
Date:
MDCCXXXIII [i.e. 1783]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of a new method of treating diseases of the joints of the knee and elbow, in a letter to Mr. Percival Pott / by H. Park. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    “ which I did about an inch above the Sinus that receives the Olecranon j I then placed “ the arm in fuch a pofition as I thought *c would be mod: advantageous, prognofti- “ eating an Anchylofis would erfue, in which <£ I was much miftaken f the perfon is now “ living, and can perform all the motions of “ the joint, which is as flexible as if nothing “ had ever been amifs.” Mr. Wainman, in •! another letter to my good friend Dr. Binns of tills town, to whom I am indebted for the communication of the above, as I am to Mr. Wainman for his permiflion to infert it here, deferibes the Luxation more particu- larly, mentioning that the Os Humeri was diflocated inwards, and that the heads of the Radius and Ulna were forced under the Bi- ceps Mufcle, * • ’ - ..... V- 'j V -i The next objection was the doubt of ob- taining a firm Callus: for this doubt I was in hopes there could be no reafonable foun- dation, as we daily fee that when two living furfaces
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