Observations and cases relative to dislocations of the shoulder joint : with a variety of methods for reduction, and an appendix, containing, as notes, extracts from various writers on surgery, &c interspersed with comments on medical and surgical cases; and also plates with explanatory tables, shewing a variety of instruments, machinery, &c for surgical purposes / by R. Roberts.

  • Roberts, Robert.
Date:
1829
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Credit: Observations and cases relative to dislocations of the shoulder joint : with a variety of methods for reduction, and an appendix, containing, as notes, extracts from various writers on surgery, &c interspersed with comments on medical and surgical cases; and also plates with explanatory tables, shewing a variety of instruments, machinery, &c for surgical purposes / by R. Roberts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cases passes without calling in aid the irbn rod of a Brute, who could not use the one we are contemplating? The lever and scoop were the Mark's tools for marking. Time, the Chieftain of events, developes strange occurrences. Parturition producing diseased hip joint clashes against Physiology and Pathology; but it is no uncommon thing that men of uncommon discrimination foster something physically uncommon. Though it may be a rare Case, the Psoas muscles, passing through the pelvis, during parturient sufferings become injured by pres- sure, and this is succeeded by permanent or temporary crippledom. The conjuring tribe do sometimes construe this into hip joint disease. We have a memorable instance or specimen of one of this descript, which perfectly recover- ed, and the fair sufferer afterwards (unheeded) passed a repetition of the natural process, which animates the globe's superficies. Bullet Forceps. Plate 2, Fig. 3*. No. 1, Two extremities of a spoon. No. 2, The outer spoon enveloping the other through a canula of this. Nos. 3, 4, Handles to each spoon, A full description of the applicability of this is given before.