Rest and pain : a course of lectures on the influence of mechanical and physiological rest in the treatment of accidents and surgical diseases, and the diagnostic value of pain / by the late John Hilton ; edited by W.H.A. Jacobson.

  • Hilton, John, 1804-1878.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Rest and pain : a course of lectures on the influence of mechanical and physiological rest in the treatment of accidents and surgical diseases, and the diagnostic value of pain / by the late John Hilton ; edited by W.H.A. Jacobson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    absorbed—Abscess in Dorsal Kegion absorbed—Disease of Hip- joint; Anchylosis and Large Abscess absorbed—Best Method of measuring Lower Limbs—Diseased Hip-joint, with Suppura- tion of the Left Side, cured by Four Months’ Best; Abscess absorbed—Diseased Hip-joint, supposed to be Gonorrhoeal; Abscess opened by Nature; Portions of Bone extruded by Granulations; cured by Best, with Permanent Anchylosis . 366 LECTUEE XVI. Hip-joint Disease; no known Accident; Sequel to Scarlet Fever; cured by Anchylosis, after a few Months of Best—Local Affections after such Diseases as Scarlatina, Measles, &c., arise from previously Unhealthy Structures suffering Bapid Deterio- ration from the Effect of the Constitutional Disturbance—Two Cases in Illustration—Diseased Hip-joint, with Necrosis of Acetabulum, cured by Best—Hip-joint Disease; Anchylosis, with Thigh somewhat bent—Cases simulating Hip-joint Disease due to deficient Nervous Influence; Treatment— Hip-joint Disease suspected, real Cause being Cerebral— Curved Sacrum, causing Outlying Symptoms of Hip-joint Disease—Congenital Malposition of both Hip-joints—Con- genital Deficiency of Development of one Lower Extremity resulting in its being Shorter than its Fellow; Effect of this— Diseases of ^Sacro-iliac Joints—Disease of the Last Lumber Vertebra simulating that of the Hip-joint—Severe Disease of Spine close to Pelvis cured by Best—Disease between Sacrum and Ilium, with Intense Pain in the Leg of the same Side . 398 LECTUEE XVII. Sacro-iliac Disease in a Boy aged Five, cured by Mechanical Best —Sacro-iliac Disease in a Man of Forty-two, cured by Best— Sacro-iliac Disease in the Left Side after Parturition; Suppu- ration within the Pelvis, Abscess absorbed, cured by Best— Disease of the Sacro-coccygeal Joint, from Injury, cured by Best—Inflammation of the Coccygeal Joints, from Injury, cured by Best—Pain in the Posterior Portion of the Coccyx in Hysterical Cases, Explanation of—Case of Non-development of both Patellae up to the Age of Three and a Half Years— Disease of Knee-joint (Scrofulous?) treated by Mechanical Best cured by Firm Bony Consolidation—Diseased Knee-joint,