Volume 1
A treatise on the morbid affections of the knee joint / by James Russell.
- James Russell
- Date:
- 1802
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on the morbid affections of the knee joint / by James Russell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![After the knee joint has continued for fome time in a difeafed ftate, the difeafed action gradually extends its influence over the, beiplibouring parts. The leg and thigh wafteland become emaciated, and the whole fyftem i is ‘brought i into confent, fo that the patients health and ftrength are gradually undermined, till at laft he dies exhaufted from the continuance and aggravation of his fufferings. Asa cafe of white {welling is attended with no confpicuous fymptom excepting that of enlargement, the true nature of the difeafe cannot be difcovered till the morbid parts are expofed. to view by difleétion. The appearances which then prefent them- felves are in general fufficiently charac- teriftic of the complaint. The great mafs of the {welling appears to arife from an af- fection of the parts exterior to the cavity of the joint, and which, belides an enlarge- ment of fize, feem alfo to have undergone a material change of ftruéture. There is a larger than natura] proportion of a vifcid fluid](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33088470_0001_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
