A treatise on the etiology, pathology, and treatment of congenital dislocations of the head of the femur / by John Murray Carnochan.
- John Murray Carnochan
- Date:
- 1850
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on the etiology, pathology, and treatment of congenital dislocations of the head of the femur / by John Murray Carnochan. 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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![bre, de sangsues, de vcsicatoires, de cauteres, et, surtout, de moxas. Je me rappelle, entre autres, une jeune fille qui souffrit I’applicatioi] de vingt-et-un moxas autour des liancbes, sans que ce traitement, inutile ou barbare, eut apporte aucun cliangement a la situation de cette infor- tunee.’ “ The affections most likely to be confounded with or mistaken for, the congenital luxation of the head of the femur upwards and outwards upon the dorsum of the ilium, are the dislocation which takes place in the same direction at the ilio-femoral articulation, as the result of external injury ; or that inflammation of the hip-joint whe- ther accompanied, or not, by the spontaneous luxation, as it is called, of the femur upon the external iliac fossa, which results sometimes, as a consequence of the absorption and destruction of the head and neck of the bone, during the progress of that strumous disease of the hip-joint, known generally by the name of morbus coxarius. Upon exami- nation, however, each of these affections will be found to possess characteristics sufficiently remarkable to enable us to arrive, with reasonable certainty, at the differential diag- nosis. In the recent dislocation from external injury upon the dorsum ilii, the shortening of the limb, the inversion of the toes, the lessened mobility of the joint, and more flattened appearance of the affected hip, are not difficult of detection. The strumous diathesis of the patient, and the relation of his case by himself or friends,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22336904_0128.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
