A probationary surgical essay, on dislocations of the thigh bone : submitted,... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh,... / by John Gordon ... October, 1808.

John Gordon

Date:: [1808]

Credit: A probationary surgical essay, on dislocations of the thigh bone : submitted,... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh,... / by John Gordon ... October, 1808. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$does not correspond with the appearances which have been remarked' by Mr. Trye, in the only case, as we believe, of dissection after this species of Luxation, which has yet been put on record *. Mr. Trye’s patient died on the twenty-second day after the accident which dislocated his thigh bone, in consequence of severe injuries which he had re¬ ceived in other parts of his body at the same time. Nothing can agree more exactly, with the acknow¬ ledged characters of luxation of the femur upwards and backwards, than the delineations which Mr. Trye has given of the external appearance of the limb 'jf; and it is a circumstance calculated to beget considerable confidence in the accuracy of the me¬ thod of studying the anatomy of luxation, in gene- , ral, which we have ventured to suggest, that the si¬ tuation of the head of the femur in this species of luxation, as described from an artificial imitation of the accident, agrees exactly with what Mr. Trye found it to have occupied on dissection. In Plate III. of his cc Illustrations,” Mr. Trye has delineated the appearance of the head of the bone, as it was brought into view on raising the Glutseus maximus muscle ; not placed on the dorsum of the ilium, but inferior to the margins of the lesser Glutaei. It may .*• ♦ t , * * 9 « r . u . f * » ’ t | . * See “ Illustrations of some of the Injuries to which the Lower Limbs are exposed,” by Charles Brandon Trye. *• / f • ‘ t See “ Illustrations,” &c. plate i. and ii. > * * * # > * , ,\ • *$