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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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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    the serratus magnus and serratus posticus inferior, and indirectly by the sacro-lumbaHs;—moreover, in order to preserve the equiUbriiim of the body, he must inchne considerably to the right side when at his work. This patient remained at the Asylum during four months, requiring no active treatment of any kind. Continued rest in the prone position, with a blister occasionally applied over the seat of pain, was found sufficient to relieve all the more distressing symptoms. After the first fortnight he ceased to complain of pain. Preparations of steel were administered during the treatment, and he was discharged on the 4th of December. At that time the projection was consider- ably diminished, but not entirely removed, and he at once returned to a less laborious department in the factory, feeling, as he said, as strong and well as ever. But to resume my remarks upon the treatment of morbus coxarius. In further exempHfication of the great advantages to be derived from the system of treatment I am now advocating, I would direct atten- tion to the successful results of a similar method, as pursued in one of the large continental hospitals. In the ' Fifth Official Report of the General Hospital in Hamburgh,' occurs the following accomit of the cases admitted that year (by Drs. Pricke and Taudtmann, art. Coxalgia):—Out of thirty-four patients afflicted with coxalgia, eleven were cured, two partially cm'ed and discharged, seven died, and the remainder were retained under treatment.