Observations on congenital displacement (the so-called congenital dislocation) at the hip-joint : and the success of Doctor Buckminster Brown's treatment by recumbency with extension for two years / by William Adams.
- Adams, William, 1810-1900.
- Date:
- [1895?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on congenital displacement (the so-called congenital dislocation) at the hip-joint : and the success of Doctor Buckminster Brown's treatment by recumbency with extension for two years / by William Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[Reprinted from the Transactions of the American Orthopedic Association, 1895.] OBSERVATIONS ON CONGENITAL DISPLACEMENT (THE SO-CALLED CONGENITAL DISLOCATION) AT THE HIP-JOINT; AND THE SUCCESS OF DR. BUCKMINSTER BROWN'S TREAT-. MENT BY RECUMBENCY WITH EX- TENSION FOR TWO YEARS. By WILLIAM ADAMS, F.R.C.S., LONDON, ENGLAND. The subject upon which I propose to oiFer a few observations to the members of the American Orthopedic Association is one of special interest to American surgeons, as the treatment is essentially of American origin, and was inaugurated by Dr. Buckminster Brown, of Boston, in the year 1885, when he published his valu- able monograph on Double Congenital Displacement of the Hip, and recorded a case of double congenital displacement occurring in a child aged four years, in which the treatment by extension with recumbency for two years and three months was eminently successful and well represented in the photographs. In a letter which I received from Dr. Brown he states that the advantage gained had been fairly well maintained, though not quite to the full extent. It is only by strictly following out the directions given out by Dr. Brown that I have been able successfully to treat a number of these cases. I am, therefore, anxious to avail myself of the present oppor- tunity of recording in America, with a deep .sense of gratitude, the results of Dr. Brown's treatment and any additional information I may have obtainojd since the subject was finst brought to my notice. It was ray good fortune to have this affection first pointed out to me by Dr. Carnochan himself in the year 1844, when he was in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20419612_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
