Observations on contraction of the fingers (Dupuytren's contraction) : and its successful treatment by subcutaneous divisions of the palmar fascia, and immediate extension also on the obliteration of depressed cicatrices after glandular abcesses, or exfoliation of bone by a subcutaneous operation / by William Adams.

  • Adams, William, 1810-1900.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Observations on contraction of the fingers (Dupuytren's contraction) : and its successful treatment by subcutaneous divisions of the palmar fascia, and immediate extension also on the obliteration of depressed cicatrices after glandular abcesses, or exfoliation of bone by a subcutaneous operation / by William Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the jaw, was also a large cicatrix, with its deep surface adherent to the fascia, over the sterno-mastoid muscle, and having at its anterior free border a semi- lunar fold of skin, but without any deep depression. Its general appearance was that of a large, flat, and adherent cicatrix. There were also two small cica- trices, one on each side of the chin, depressed and adherent to the bone. Of these cicatrices she gave the following history. Six years ago, being then twenty years of age, at the time when the last molar, or wisdom-teeth, were making their appearance, considerable swelling and inflammation occurred about the angle of the jaw, on the left side. The dentist could not force the mouth open, and she was unable to take solid food for a month. At the end of this time, the dentist, with difficulty, extracted the last molar tooth on the left side in the lower jaw; and it is said that some bony enlargement of the fang of the tooth existed. Abscesses about the angle of the jaw and necrosis of the bone followed : several pieces were removed by Dr. Sharpe, and the patient took away small pieces herself. The late Mr. Partridge removed a large piece of bone. A few months later, severe inflamma- tion, with swelling of a similar character, occurred about the angle of the jaw on the right side, and the last molar tooth was extracted with difficulty about six months after the removal of the tooth from the left side. Necrosis of bone also occurred on the right side, and a number of small pieces continued to come away from time to time nearly up to the date of the operation. Altogether, less bone, she states, came away from the right side than from the left. Small