A treatise on dislocations and on fractures of the joints / by Sir Astley Cooper.

  • Cooper, Astley, Sir.
Date:
1823
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    of the bone towards their origin ; and if the dislocation has been long unreduced, there seems to be a change produced in their structure, by which they lose their flexibility and tear rather than yield to extension. But although dislocations happening fr om violence, are djsi( thus accompanied by the laceration of the ligaments of the tioS! joint, yet they can occur from relaxation of the ligaments only, of which the following case is an example. CASE. A girl came to my house, who had the power of throwing her patellae off the surfaces of the condyles of os femoris. Her knees were bent considerably inwards, and when the rectus muscle acted upon the patella, it was drawn from the thigh- bone into a line with the tubercle of the tibia, and laid nearly flat upon the side of the external condyle of the femur. She came from the south of Europe, and said she had been brought up as a dancing girl from her earliest years, thus, gaining her daily bread as we see children dancing upon elevated plat- forms in the streets of London ; and she imputed to these continued exertions the weakness under which she laboured. A relaxed state of ligaments, is also produced by an accumulation of synovia in joints. Mr. Shillito, surgeon at c 2