Illustrations of some of the injuries to which the lower limbs are exposed / by Charles Brandon Trye.
- Date:
- 1802
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Illustrations of some of the injuries to which the lower limbs are exposed / by Charles Brandon Trye. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![[ ] *e wards his body, but not without iucreafmg his pain. The *l knee and great toe were turned outwards, but not fo much *l as from fome deferiptions of fuch cafes I had room to expeiT. This defeription correfponded exactly with a cafe of fourteen days handing ; except that, in the latter, the holJownefs on the outfide of the thigh was a lets pro- minent feature ; that there was a roundnefs on the infide of the thigh, the outline of which was pretty convex; that there was no vijible round tumour in the groin, but a palpable great tenfion, and fulnefs fomewhat more forwards than the tuberofity of the ifehium, and there the head of the bone was certainly, though fomewhat difficultly, perceived by the finger. After an effort or two had been made without accomplilhing the reduction, the head of the bone was found to be moved, and then the trochanter could be felt, though very much lower than its proper fituation; by the nejit extenfion the re- duction was effected. I do not apprehend that any thing is neceffary here to explain the mode of reduction. Mr. Travis and Dr. Kirkland ap- pear to have faid every thing which can require to be added to the directions given by fyffematic writers. Why are the knee and the toes turned inwards in the firlt kind of diflocation, outwards in the fecond, and {till more out- wards in the fracture of the neck ? That we may anfwer this queftion, it is neceffary to con- fider what are the powers by which the knee is turned out- wards, what are thole which turn it inwards, and alfo the maimer in which thole powers are affected in the feveral ac- cidents? Mr. Cowper, in his fplendid and elaborate work on the mufcles, does not attribute to any of the mufclcs of the pelvis and thigh the office of turning the knee inwards. Nor do](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21913183_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
