On bone-setting (so called), and its relation to the treatment of joints crippled by injury, rheumatism, inflammation, &c. &c / by Wharton P. Hood.

  • Hood, Wharton P. (Wharton Peter), 1833-1916.
Date:
1871
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Credit: On bone-setting (so called), and its relation to the treatment of joints crippled by injury, rheumatism, inflammation, &c. &c / by Wharton P. Hood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Towards the close of the year 1850 I had reared a ladder, full seven yards long, against a standard pear-tree, and I mounted nearly to the top of this ladder with a pruning-knife in hand, in order that I might correct an over-grown luxuriance in the tree. Suddenly the ladder swerved in a lateral direction. I adhered to it manfully, myself 'and the ladder coming simul- taneously to the ground with astounding velocity. In our fall I had just time to move my head in a direction that it did not come in contact with the ground; still, as it afterwards turned out, there was a partial concussion of the brain ; and add to this, my whole side, from foot to shoulder, felt as though it had been pounded in a mill. In the course of the afternoon I took blood from my arm to the amount of thirty ounces, and followed the affair up the next day with a strong aperient. I believe that, with these necessary precautions, all would have gone right again (saving the arm) had not a second misad- venture followed shortly on the heels of the first; and it was of so alarming a nature as to induce
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