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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    COXALGIA, COXARTHROCACE, MORBUS COXARIUS, or HIP-JOINT DISEASE. The term coxalgia, by whicli this disease is most commonly recognised, is perhaps the least appropriate of the above designations. The word itself expresses only one of the symptoms, and does not define the precise situation of that symptom. Coxalgia, or neuralgia coxae, literally means pain of the hip. Now in this disease, as I shall presently mention more particularly, the pain, in a vast majority of cases, in the early stages at least, is not felt in the hip, but down the thigh, leg, or foot, the inside of the knee being the most frequent seat of it; and in its more advanced stages, although there generally is ex- treme pain in the hip, it extends wddely to the sm-- rounding parts. If the term were correctly used, it would rather point to a neuralgic affection, essentially seated in the joint, and confined to it; as for example, to the painful afi'ection not unfrequently to be met with in hysterical females, in which the pain from the commencement is situated in the hip, accompanied with general nervous excitability. The disease to which I am about to call attention is of distressingly frequent occurrence; looking to the constant exercise of the joint in the various positions