Description of an affection of the tibia induced by fever : with observations on the treatment of this complaint / by Thomas Whately.

  • Whately, Thomas, -1821.
Date:
1810
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Credit: Description of an affection of the tibia induced by fever : with observations on the treatment of this complaint / by Thomas Whately. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    greater length, which might be known, by its being moved upwards and downwards, in its bony case, by < the forceps, but whence it was not possible to extract it; I have been sometimes able to accomplish the extraction, by moving it upwards or downwards, as far as it would go, and then raising one end of it. Where I could not succeed by this procedure, I have been, sometimes, obliged to resort to a more violent method, that of endeavouring to break the exfo- liation into two parts, by means of the forceps. This'I have been able to do, where it has not been very strong, and having thereby ex- tracted it, the cure has been speedily com- ■ pleted. . There are other cases, however, in which me- thods, very different from those, must be taken. We may have the strongest reasons for conclud- ing, that there is a loose exfoliation, within the cancelli, and yet may not be able to feel it by the probe. In this case, as well as when the opening in the Tibia is too small, to admit an exfoliation to pass, by any of the methods above described, we must apply the kali purum to the integuments around the ulcerated opening in such a manner, and in such quantity, as to destroy them, to the extent of about half an inch, from the centre of the opening. This is done