Observations on the disease of the hip joint; to which are added, some remarks on white swellings of the knee, the caries of the joint of the wrist and other similar complaints; the whole illustrated by cases, and engravings taken erom [sic] the diseased parts / By Edward Ford.

  • Edward Ford
Date:
1794
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Credit: Observations on the disease of the hip joint; to which are added, some remarks on white swellings of the knee, the caries of the joint of the wrist and other similar complaints; the whole illustrated by cases, and engravings taken erom [sic] the diseased parts / By Edward Ford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [OJ] CASE IV. A Caries of the Wrift cured by Anchylofis, or Cobcfion of the Bones, taken Srom Mr. Da- wid’s Memoir, on the Effect of Motion and Reft, addreffed to the Royal Academy of Surgery at Paris *. - A Man about fifty years of age, applied to me in 1770, with the bones of the wrift fo carious, that in two or three places, one might pafs a probe through them, by fol- lowing fome fiftulous openings, that pre- {ented themfelves on the outfide. The writft, and the hand which were cedematous, con- fiderably {welled, and of a dark blue colour, feemed to require amputating fo much the more urgently, as the patient was tormented . with a flow fuppuratory fever; it was even the advice of a man, fkilful in the profeffion, not to defer having recourfe to this laft re- fource ; notwithftanding this, I ventured to * See Juftamond’s works, by Houlfton, p. 200. tem-
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