Historical notes on the question of the value of traction in the treatment of hip disease / by A.B. Judson.

  • Judson, Adoniram Brown, 1837-1916.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Historical notes on the question of the value of traction in the treatment of hip disease / by A.B. Judson. 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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    limb] the patient is soon conscious of great relief. Even little children discover in a few days that it greatly relieves their pain, and insist on keeping it on.” Report on Surgery to the Illinois State Medical Society. Chicago Medical Examiner, October, 1864, p. 558: “A vast proportion of the spinal, hip, and knee diseases are readily cured by any good extending apparatus which draws sufficiently to take off all the pressure and friction of the inflamed parts.” Armand, Jules. De I’extension continue comme traite- ment de la coxalgie chez enfants. These de Paris, 1878, No. 38, p. 29 : “ Continued extension [by the American splints] separates the articular surfaces, or at least les- sens the pressure.” Page 69: “ We believe that con- tinued extension is an immobilizing agent. The thigh is drawn down in its axis, the muscles are fatigued and overcome and rendered incapable of movement, and the pelvis is restrained from wide motion by the counter- extension.” Barwell, Richard. A Treatise on Diseases of the Joints, London, 1861, p. 261 : “Under these circumstances [pain and tonic contraction of the muscles increasing] the proper plan of treatment is to fight against the irritation and to counteract the muscular contraction.” Page 266: “To counteract such force [muscular contraction pressing one bone on another], I have invented a form of splint.” Page 267 : “ Besides the mere power of straightening a bent joint (only a secondary use of the splint, and not that for which it was invented), the India-rubber spring counteracts that force which presses the bones too violently together, thereby producing the spasm, keeping up the irritation and the caries. I have seen the most violent pains yield gradu- ally to this contractile force; it appears by its unvarying, constant, and unyielding power to tire out the muscles, to