Statistical report of all operations performed on healthy joints in hospital practice by Mr. Lister, from September 1871 to the present time, together with such accidental wounds of joints as occurred in the same period / by W. Watson Cheyne, F.R.C.S.

  • Cheyne, William Watson, Sir, 1852-1932
Date:
1879
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Credit: Statistical report of all operations performed on healthy joints in hospital practice by Mr. Lister, from September 1871 to the present time, together with such accidental wounds of joints as occurred in the same period / by W. Watson Cheyne, F.R.C.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    charge ; with Result Disease. 38 Ellen M., 12. Ati., Nov. 6, 1877. Oji., Nov. 6, „ Dts., Nov. 17, „ Result, cured. Punctured wound of ankle-joint, caused by scissors. The accident hapjjened twenty-one hours before admission. Glairy fluid escaped, and a probe passed into the joint. Foot red and swollen. ag Jane D., 50. Ad., Oct. IS, 1878. op., Oct. IS, „ Dis., June 20, 1879. Result, cured. Compound fracture of the lower end of the femur, with splintering of the condyles into the joint. Pa- tient was seen one hour and a half after the accident. 30 Maria L., 60. Ad., Nov. 12, 1878. Op., Nov. 12, „ Dis., Ajjril 19, 1879. Result, in process of cure. Compound dislocation of the left ankle-joint, with comminuted frac- ture of the fibula and fracture of the internal malleolus. Skin in the neighbourhood of the wound much contused. Patient jumped over Waterloo Bridge ; in his descent, he struck his left elbow against the side of the parapet. The result was an oblique fracture into the elbow-joint, de- taching the internal condyle. There was a small opening in the skin communicating with 3ie frac- ture. Punctured wound of the left knee-joint, just above the pa- tella. The finger, when intro- the joint, and felt the under sur- face of the patella. Synovial fluid escaped. Great pain on move- ment of the joint. The wound was inflicted about fourteen hours be- fore the patient came to the hos- pital. 31 32 Henry B., 22. Samuel M., 54. Ad., April 20, 1879. op., April 21, „ D is.. May 30th, to come as out-pa- tient. Result, cured. Ad., July 8, 1879. OA, July 8, „ Dts., July 24,,,