A review of the past and present treatment of disease in the hip, knee, and ankle joints : with their deformities / by Hugh Owen Thomas.

  • Thomas, Hugh Owen, 1834-1891.
Date:
1878
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Credit: A review of the past and present treatment of disease in the hip, knee, and ankle joints : with their deformities / by Hugh Owen Thomas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A REVIEW OF THE PAST AND PRESENT TREATMENT OF INFLAMED JOINTS, BY H. O. THOMAS, LIVERPOOL. Since the publication of my views on the nature and treatment of Diseases of the Hip, Knee, and Ankle Joints, the subject has engaged the special attention of surgeons, and the merits and demerits of various methods have been debated more fully than before ; and as one of the gentlemen I dissented from expressed the opinion in a communication to myself, that my notice of his views and means was too limited (which I now believe), I therefore decided to review more fully than I had hitherto done the various methods championed by gentle- men whose views are worthy of being well considered. One notable feature is prominent in the discussion of the last three years, namely, that it has principally concerned the treatment of the hip joint. Why this joint should be referred to as though its treatment involved special theoretical principles, I have failed to perceive; indeed, the press-reports of lectures and discussions amply confirm my former assertion, that those who have devoted special attention to the surgery of the articulations are also specially wrong in their theories, and, consequently, in their practice. The methods advocated in and out of the surgical profession, may be sub-divided into two classes, namely, those believed to be based on scientific principles and professional experience, advocated by surgeons trained to practise their profession scientifically, and, again, the other methods heralded by unqualified practitioners, who