The management of the abscesses of hip disease / by A.B. Judson.

  • Judson, Adoniram Brown, 1837-1916.
Date:
1885
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Credit: The management of the abscesses of hip disease / by A.B. Judson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprinted from the New YorJc Medical Journal THE MAHAGEMEH E ABSCESSES OF HIP DISEASE.* By a. B. JUDSON, M. D., ORTHOPjEDIC surgeon to the out-patient department op the new YORK HOSPITAL. The present paper is founded on the study of a number of cases of hip disease in which the discharge of pus was a prominent feature. I hope to draw from a consideration of these cases, which occurred in my own practice, certain con- clusions of practical value. I have excluded those cases in which there was reason to believe that the pus was the product of inflammation of the soft tissues alone. Cases of peri-articular inflammation may perhaps properly enoug’h be called instances of hip disease. They sometimes present serious and alarming symptoms, but the comparative brevity of the affection and the subsequent integrity of the functions of the joint are sufficient evidence that the disease is not that insidious and destructive hip disease which begins in the bony tissue and pursues a slow and baleful course through the struc- tures of the joint until the usefulness of the part and the symmetry of the body are compromised. The cases which have been reviewed in the preparation of this paper belong to the latter class. * Read before the New York Orthopiedic Society, January 29, 1886.