On bone-setting (so called), and its relation to the treatment of joints crippled by injury, rheumatism, inflammation, &c. &c / by Wharton P. Hood.

Date:
1871
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Credit: On bone-setting (so called), and its relation to the treatment of joints crippled by injury, rheumatism, inflammation, &c. &c / by Wharton P. Hood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    my heel was fixed so that it was kept in the same position. No good arose from this treatment, and consequently, after a month's trial, I went to Mr. Hutton, who, on seeing my high heel, said, * What do you wear that machine for } Do you want to lame yourself I was proceeding to tell him the opinion of the various surgeons on my case, when he said, ' Don't bother me about anatomy; I know nothing about it: but I tell you your ankle is out, and that I can put it in again.' After a few weeks, during which he had been to the North, and could not therefore undertake my case, I returned to him on June 27th, telling him that I had in the meantime consulted sur- geons who had assured me that, whatever else might ail me, my ankle was most assuredly ' all right,' but that I would notwithstanding submit to his treatment. He again examined me most carefully, beginning at the ankle round bone, and he then put his thumb on to a place which hurt me a good deal, and produced a sensation of a sharp prick of a pin. He proceeded to operate