A dissertation on ischias, or, The disease of the hip-joint : commonly called a hip case; and on the use of the Bath waters as a remedy in this complaint / by William Falconer.

  • Falconer, William, 1744-1824.
Date:
1805
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Credit: A dissertation on ischias, or, The disease of the hip-joint : commonly called a hip case; and on the use of the Bath waters as a remedy in this complaint / by William Falconer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vastus externus muscles generally appear wasted and flabby, and the external line of division between the glutasus and the biceps, and semitendinosus seems in a good measure obliterated, and filled up with a flabby pro- tuberance, as if the glutseus magnus was let down, or spread over the upper part of the muscles which lie immediately below it. Notwithstanding this apparent enlargement, the circumference of the thigh is, in reality, diminished; which diminution in large sub- jects, I have seen amount to three or four inches, when compared with the side not affected. Sometimes the breadth of the nates on the diseased side is much increased, though its prominence and firmness are diminished ; a man now * in the Bath hospital, has the nates on the left side, at least three inches wider than on the right. The head and neck of . the thigh-bone itself may be dis- cerned, by feeling, to be much more pro- minent on the affected side; and the joint suffers, I believe, a partial dislocation. A 3 The * August 27, 1801.