Medical and surgical report of the Children's Hospital : 1869-1894 / edited by T.M. Rotch and Herbert L. Burrell.

Date:
1895
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Credit: Medical and surgical report of the Children's Hospital : 1869-1894 / edited by T.M. Rotch and Herbert L. Burrell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    as any boy at this time. He was, however, subsequently seized with tubercular meningitis, and died. At the autopsy complete cure of the hip disease was found, and this specimen also shows that there has been no widen- ing of the acetabulum, and but little alteration in the shape either of the acetabulum or head of the femur. (See illustration, page 310.) A comparison of this specimen with those of seveie hip disease where traction was not used speaks most emphatically for the thorough use of the method. Specimen on the left from a case not treated by traction; that ON THE RIGHT FROM ONE TREATED BY TRACTION. [From the N. Y. Med. Journal.] The specimen on the right is the head and neck of the femur where excision was done after two or three years of efficient treatment by traction, but the reparative pro- cess was not sufficient in this case to establish a cure; the patient’s general condition failed, and excision was done. It is to be noticed that there is very little altera- tion in the shape of the head of the excised femur. This, compared with the accompanying specimen of an excision of a patient with hip disease of similar severity