A practical treatise on hip-joint disease : with reference especially to treatment, by mechanical means, for the relief of contraction and deformity of the affected limb / by William Curtis Hugman.

  • Hugman, William Curtis, 1816-1887.
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical treatise on hip-joint disease : with reference especially to treatment, by mechanical means, for the relief of contraction and deformity of the affected limb / by William Curtis Hugman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    rally inclines to the sound side, or rests upon the inner part of the opposite thigh, and is sometimes so firmly fixed in that position, that any attempt made to alter it, causes excruciating agony to the patient; the foot is occasionally inverted, but generally everted. Some- times it happens that the diseased limb is completely throT\Ti over the other, and locked in that manner; and if the patient be not worn out with hectic fever, and long-continued sufi'ering, he gradually recovers with permanent and most distressing lameness.