A memoir on amputation of the thigh at the hip-joint (with a successful case) / [William Sands Cox].

  • William Sands Cox
Date:
1845
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Credit: A memoir on amputation of the thigh at the hip-joint (with a successful case) / [William Sands Cox]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hours daily. The quantity of urine passed in the twenty-four hours is thirty-two ounces, specific gravity 1 • 016 ; no coagulation by heat or nitric acid; contains litliates. Resume the quinine mixture. January 1, 1845.—(Edema diminished; appetite good and general improvement. January 5.—Morning.—Pains much diminished; wound now about the size of a sixpenny piece, looks healthy; slight haemorrhage took place from ulcerated surface during the dressing. January 7.—Catamenia ceased to-day, having been scarcely so plentiful as formerly. February 5.—From the last date up to this period she has continued gradually to gain her strength, and has been able to take exercise with crutches; the wound is entirely healed. On Sunday last she attended divine service in the chapel of the hospital, with the other patients, without any inconvenience, and on Wednesday last she was discharged by the committee of the hospital, cured. August 12, 1845.—Through the generosity of a benevolent lady1 she has enjoyed, during the last two months, the benefit of a residence in the country; she is now in robust health, and by the kindness of friends enabled to support herself by her own industry. REMARKS. Necessity of the Operation.—The history of the case and the character of the morbid growths led to the opinion that the disease was of a specific nature, consequently the operation was not proposed for a period of nearly two years, and then only from the progressive increase of the disease and the constant and distressing pain. Under these circumstances I felt myself fully warranted in recommending it. I was induced to hope for a favourable result on the following grounds: first, there was no enlargement of the cutaneous veins; secondly, there was no enlargement of the inguinal and femoral glands; thirdly, the various functions and secretions were regularly and duly performed. The diagnosis of the disease and the absolute necessity of the operation were confirmed by the following appearances of the stump after amputation. 1 Mrs. P- •, of Warley Hall, Salop.
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