[Appendix to a Treatise on dislocations].

  • Cooper, Astley, Sir, 1768-1841.
Date:
[cbetween 1800 and 1899?]
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Credit: [Appendix to a Treatise on dislocations]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This species of dislocation of the femur is hy far the most easy of reduction of any that has come under my observation, and it may be presumed that had the leg at first been carried behind instead of before the other, the replacement of the limb might have been effected immediately. Where the limb is large, it is impossible to carry it in a right line across its fellow, and perhaps in order to avoid the danger to which I have alluded, and which I have often heard you point out in your lectures, it would be as well to adopt the line of ex- tension which in this instance answered so well. October 15, 1822. This patient could stand by the side of his bed without support in a week after the accident. Guildhall, February 7, 1823. My Dear Sir, I take this opportunity of giving you the particulars of the case of dislocation on the pubis, which you wished for. Charles Pugh, aged fifty-five, a cooper, about the middle size, on the evening of the 23rd January, during the time he w^is making water at the corner of a street, was struck on the back part of the right hip by the wheel of a cart; and the blow knocked him down. He was taken up by some persons passing, who, finding that he was not able to walk, took him to St. Thomas's Hospital. The accident happened about