Observations on the disease of the hip joint : to which are added some remarks on white swellings of the knee, the caries of the joint of the wrist and other similar complaints; the whole illustrated by cases, and engravings taken from the diseased parts / by Edward Ford.

  • Ford, Edward (Edward Bruce)
Date:
1794
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Credit: Observations on the disease of the hip joint : to which are added some remarks on white swellings of the knee, the caries of the joint of the wrist and other similar complaints; the whole illustrated by cases, and engravings taken from the diseased parts / by Edward Ford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hour. In quick exertions, and in running efpecially, they are apt to fall; and though often averfe to motion, they have at times great livelinefs, and a prompt difpofition to exercife; in their recumbent pofture, in bed, the thigh affe&ed is ordinarily bent forward: and every attempt to alter that pofition is attended with great pain, which j is particularly increafed by every degree of 1 exertion or violence, employed to ftretchj out the limb to its full length. The parts furrounding the joint, on prelTure, evidently betray no great degree of painful fenfation, but, in general, fome tendernefs, where it is moft likely to fuffer by compreffion, par- ticularly behind the great trochanter, where there is not much cellular membrane, or mufcle to cover the joint. They feel, more- over, a tendernefs in the groin, where the lymphatic glands are frequently found to be a little enlarged. The difeafe for fome time, at leaft, in- dicates itfelf by the fymptoms above men- tioned j it is not, however, uniformly pain- ful,