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
Catalogue details

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.

    38/108 (page 32)
    In the month of September following, the excavations had entirely filled up, and were somidly healed over; her general health had undergone a corresponding change for the better, and sensation was so far restored to the limbs that she could distinctly feel the pressure of the hand upon every part of the extremities. The urine and alvine evacuations were no longer passed involuntarily. In this condition she was unfortunately obliged to leave the institution; and at her urgent desire was provided with the couch, in order to con- tinue the treatment at home. Seeing that scrofulous disease of the hip-joint is so frequently associated with caries of the vertebrae, it will readily be admitted that the applicability of the prone system to these latter cases, is a most valuable con- sideration, and I trust it may not be considered an unnecessary digression to insert the following notes of an interesting case which was discharged from the Asylum a few days since, Octavius Young, aged 22 years, a hammerman, lately working in the engine-factory of the North- western Railway, until two years since had enjoyed very good health, and appeared to have a sound and robust constitution. About that time, while employed at his laborious business, he began to experience a feeling of stiifness and weakness in the back and loins, and occasionally complained of a dull heavy pain in that situation. During the first five or six months these symptoms never prevented him following his accustomed employment, and very little attention was