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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    overcome their spasm, and to keep the joint surfaces, if not asunder, still not pressing together,” Lectures on the Natural History and Treatment of Hip- joint Disease. Lancet, 1862, 1863; October 17, 1863, p. 441 : “ Perhaps you will tell me that I am arguing in a circle—that having asserted the muscular spasm to be due to inflammation, it is not logical to prove inflammation due to the spasm. True, this is a circle; but it is Nature’s own, and not mine.” Diseases of Joints, 2d edition, 1881, p. 464: “To pre- vent this pressure [produced by muscular contraction], or at least to mitigate its effects, is the object of extension.” Bauer, Louis. Some Observations on Hip-joint Disease and its Rational Treatment. New York Journal of Medi- cine, September, 1853, p. 173 : “ We possess in permanent extension [traction ?] a sovereign remedy for overpower- ing muscular reflex action, and ultimately restoring the greatly distorted form.” Discussion in the New York Academy of Medicine. American Medical Times, May 4, 1861, p. 297 : “The new instrument [combining motion with extension] was admira- bly adapted to control and alleviate progressive hip dis- ease.” May 25, 1861, p. 345 : “ It was not possible for the articular surfaces to be directly separated by an extension so insigniflcant as that exercised by the splints,” Lectures on Orthopcedic Surgery, New York, 1868, 2d edition, p. 282 : “ I have derived little or no benefit from extension per se in the treatment of progressive joint dis- eases. Whatever benefit 1 have derived from it at all is ' unquestionably due to its collateral effect upon fixing the affected articulation.” Blandin. M. Maisonneuve [Annales de la chirurgie fran^aise et etrangere, 1844, pp. 191, 192) says that M. Blandin advocates and practices a combination of extension