A probationary essay, on the pathology and treatment of false joints / [William Sharpey].

  • William Sharpey
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[1830]
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Credit: A probationary essay, on the pathology and treatment of false joints / [William Sharpey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    false joints, * describes the state of the parts in a non- consolidated fracture of the humerus in the follow¬ ing- words : 44 Un des bras etoit difforme ; je reconnus une fausse articulation a la reunion du cinquieme superieur de fhumerus avec les quatre cinquiemes inferieurs ; une capsule hbreuse tres resistante unis- soit les deux surfaces articulaires, planes, polies, cou- vertes d’une couche mince de cartilage, lubrifiees par un liquide onctueux;” 44 le grand pectoral et le grand dorsal, pres de leur insertion a fhumerus etoient con- vertis en un tissu dense, fibreux, tres resistant.” f Mr Alanson, in the Medical Observations and Inqui¬ ries, l refers to a case of fracture of the tibia which had not united, and in which, 44 on dissecting the limb after amputation, there was no appearance of any interposed part. The extremities of the frac¬ ture were incrusted over with a truly cartilaginous substance ; hence a kind of articulation was formed which allowed of considerable motion.” Perhaps the best and most complete description of a false joint of the kind in question is that given hy Sir Everard Home in the Transactions of a Society for the Im¬ provement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge. $ In the case related by him the fracture was of the os humeri, and had existed about four years. 44 The arm was carefully dissected to examine the state of * Essai sur FAnatomie Pathologique, Tome i. p. 373. t Op. Cit. p. 37! • i Vol. iv. p. 413. § Vol. i. p. 233.
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