Notes on the morbid anatomy of chronic rheumatic arthritis of the shoulder and other joints / [Edwin Canton].

  • Canton, Edwin, 1817-1885.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Notes on the morbid anatomy of chronic rheumatic arthritis of the shoulder and other joints / [Edwin Canton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the same time. In one instance I found both hip and shoulder-joints of each side were similiarly diseased. In another case; the left shoulder and right knee had suffered. In a third example; there was incipient mis¬ chief in the right shoulder and left knee; and in a fourth case; the carpo-metacarpal articulation of both thumbs partook with the left shoulder-joint of the same complaint. These facts are introd uced in corroboration of a remark made by Mr. Adams; in describing chro¬ nic rheumatic arthritis of the knee; “ when it is af¬ fected/' he says, “ other joints in the same individual will also be found more or less implicated. Loose cartilages.—I may here mention an analogy observed in the three joints referred to with respect to the presence of portions of bone in their immediate neighbourhood; which have become in part or wholly detached when the articulations are in the morbid con¬ dition described. A short time since I removed from the body of a well-formed and muscular old man, the parts composing the right hip-joint, and found a piece of nodulated spongy bone, one inch and a quarter in length, springing from the upper and outer margin of the acetabulum to be almost completely separated; its outer surface was irregular, like many adjoining exos¬ toses, whilst the inner, against which the head of the femur moved, was, like the latter, white and polished. In two shoulder-joints, similarly diseased, were seen small, flat, circular pieces of bone closely connected to
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