A treatise on the theory and management of ulcers. With a dissertation on white swellings of the joints. To which is prefixed, an essay on the chirurgical treatment of inflammation and its consequences / [Benjamin Bell].

  • Bell, Benjamin, 1749-1806.
Date:
1778
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Credit: A treatise on the theory and management of ulcers. With a dissertation on white swellings of the joints. To which is prefixed, an essay on the chirurgical treatment of inflammation and its consequences / [Benjamin Bell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fiances of which I have known, that had been all along confidered as real anchylofes of the word: kind, but which, on difleCtion, were conflantly found to proceed merely from a contracted flats of the flexor mufcles and tendons. With refpeCt to the other opinion, which for* merly fo univerfally, and with .many Hill does prevail, of fuch affections generally proceeding from an infpiflated flate of the fynovial fluid, it has, for fometime, by many anatomifls, been much doubted if it ever occurs; and from all the opportunities I have had of difleCting fuch did eafed joints, I am pretty much convinced, that it either never does take place ; or, at lead, that it is an exceeding rare occurrence. For, in every cafe of this kind, even when the difeafe had been of very- long continuance, if the capfular ligament of the joint remained undivided, fo that no matter from the furrounding foft parts got admittance, and when the ends of the bones were not become cari¬ ous, the fynovia always retained its natural appear¬ ances, both in colour and confidence : So that it is very probable, the many caufes of difeafed joints, attributed to affections of that fluid, have , been