On some common injuries to limbs : their treatment and after-treatment including bone-setting (so-called) / by Edward Cotterell.

  • Cotterell, Edward, 1857-1898.
Date:
1885
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Credit: On some common injuries to limbs : their treatment and after-treatment including bone-setting (so-called) / by Edward Cotterell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPEN0IX.] RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. loi publish it as an appendix, hoping that other cases may be benefited by this mode of treatment. M. C, a woman aged thirty-five years, was first attacked with rheumatoid arthritis in November, 1882, and came under my care the following April. The joints affected were knees, ankles, tarsal, elbows, wrists, metacarpal and phalangeal, shoulders, lower jaw and cervical vertebrae. She was very lame, could only hobble along, and was unable to dress herself. There was swelling, pain and very limited movements in all the joints affected. I treated her with salicylate and iodide of soda internally, with iodide of potassium liniment externally, which relieved her of pain. After about two months treatment as above, the patient thus describes her condition. M}^ right foot was so bad that I could not get it straight, quite turned in, I walked with a stick, could not dress myself, or get my hands to my face, or bend my knees or feet in the least. At the end of July, I recommended a course of Turkish baths, but the patient was unable to take more than three, as they weakened her. Upon the 20th of August, 1883, the patient
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