[Appendix to a Treatise on dislocations].

  • Astley Cooper
Date:
[cbetween 1800 and 1899?]
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Credit: [Appendix to a Treatise on dislocations]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on the ground; the whole Hmb was advanced before the sound one, and remained in a state of abduction. He was then laid upon a firm table on his back, and the capability of motion in the limb carefully noted. His knee was first bent toward his breast without any difficulty, and to as full an extent as the opposite limb; the power of abduction was also complete, and the attempt not productive of pain; but extension and adduc- tion of the thigh were the motions most impeded. When the limb was made to approximate the sound one, which could not be done without producing pain and numbness on the inner side of the thigh, the patellae remained eleven inches distant from each other ; and as soon as the hand was withdrawn from the ancle, the leg flew outward with a spring from the re- action of the two small glutoei. The limb could not be car- ried backward, but remained permanently bent at the hip-joint, and when any attempt was made to fix it, he complained of great pain in the direction of the psoas and ileacus mus- cles. The depression observed at the site of the trochanter was such as to render it difficult to feel that process; while on the inner side of the thigh a distinct projection was formed by the head of the bone, which could be felt under the ad- ductors. These latter muscles were rendered very tense by the projecting bone. The nates appeared to preserve their usual form. ^