Remarks on interstitial absorption of the neck of the thigh-bone / by Benjamin Bell.

  • Bell, Benjamin, 1810-1883.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Remarks on interstitial absorption of the neck of the thigh-bone / by Benjamin Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I am anxious to direct the attention of the profes- sion. There is an affection which, on examining af- ter death the bodies of persons at an advanced pe- riod of life, bears a striking resemblance in some of its phenomena to ossific union of fracture of the Cer- vix Femoris within the capsule. During life, how- ever, the symptoms of both differ essentially from each other. But in some respects, there exists a si- milarity between them. In both, we meet with a shortening, to a greater or less extent, of the affect- ed limb. In both, the sphere of motion of the hip- '^q-' of violence by which it may be produced: as, for example, when the fracture is through the head of the bone *, and there is no separation of its fractured end, or when the bone is broken without its periosteum or reflected ligament being torn; or when it is broken obliquely, partly within, and part- ly external to the capsular ligament; but all I wish to be un- derstood to say, is, that, if it ever does happen, it is a very rare occurrence, and I have not yet met with a single example of it.—Observations on the Fracture of the Neck of the Thigh- bone, Lond. 1823. In confirmation of the possibility of such an accident occurring, I shall insert a passage from Boyer, Traite de Maladies Chirurgicales, &c. vol. iii. p. 261. Nous avons vu un homme qui a pu marcher pen- dant plusieurs jours avec le socours d'un baton avant que les fragmens d'un fracture du col du femur se fussent deplaces. MoRGAGNT quotes a similar case from Guegohy Barbett's Apo- logia di Due Cure, in which the patient walked without any difficulty for fourteen days after the accident. B