An appendix to the Observations upon Mr. Pott's General remarks on fractures / [Thomas Kirkland].

  • Kirkland, Thomas, 1722-1798
Date:
1771
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Credit: An appendix to the Observations upon Mr. Pott's General remarks on fractures / [Thomas Kirkland]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Appendix. %s obliquely ab©ve its cavity, and then this kind of extenfion gives us an opportunity of pufliing it rudely into its place at the time it is paffing by the breach in the lide of the acetabulum.—And what is worfe, this is done by guefs work, there being no criterion fixed when it is the moft proper time to make a lever of the bone. Whereas, preffing the ancle outward, and bringing the thigh in a tight angle with the body, places the bone in a proper fituation previous to reduction, and at once with certainty determines this matter without the torture confequent on great extenfion.—And if we are to fuppofe the burfal ligament embracing the neck of the femur from a rent through it, will not the confequence of extenfion with the thigh in a right line with the body, be horrible ? But if inftead of the bone lying towards the groin, it lies Jlrait acrofs the foramen ovale, will not great extenfion with the D thigh