Case of Furneaux Jordan's amputation at the hip-joint, in which bone was reformed in the stump / by Edmund Owen.

  • Owen, Edmund, 1847-1915.
Date:
1886
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Credit: Case of Furneaux Jordan's amputation at the hip-joint, in which bone was reformed in the stump / by Edmund Owen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    AMPUTATION AT TIIE HIP-JOINT. 3 This report offers many lines for discussion, hnt without ven- turing to suggest any particular one, I would like briefly to state my opinion that Furneaux Jordan’s method of amputating at the hip-joint has greatly diminished the risk to the patient, and that it has given the deathblow to the old and dreadful disarticulation by transfixion. There is now no need for haste; there is far less likelihood of the occurrence of hcemorrhage and shock, and there^is less mutilation of the patient. The long stump may even give a serviceable support to an artificial limb. And I surmise that years hence, when every problem in the surgery of amputation has been solved, and the complete history of that branch of our art is written, the name of Jordan will be found closely associated with that of Syme in the suggestion of an operation which is at the same time perfectly simple in design and simply perfect in its practical results. Hahhison and Sons, St. Martin’s Lane, Printers in Ordinary to Ilcr Majesty.