Case of Furneaux Jordan's amputation at the hip-joint, in which bone was reformed in the stump / by Edmund Owen.

  • Owen, Edmund, 1847-1915.
Date:
1886
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Credit: Case of Furneaux Jordan's amputation at the hip-joint, in which bone was reformed in the stump / by Edmund Owen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Reprinted from the' Medical Society's Proceedings,' Vol. 7X] l I A CASE OF FURNEAUX JORDAN’S AMPUTATION AT THE HIP-JOINT, IN WHICH BONE WAS RE- FORMED IN THE STUMP. By Edmund Owen, F.R.C.S. 0 In May, 1884, an anaemic boy of six years was admitted to St. Mary’s Hospital for old standing disease of the right hip- joint. The limb was flexed and fixed; the knee-joint of that sido also was diseased. The urine was albuminous and the liver was large. After about six weeks’ treatment, an abscess formed in the hip- joint, and soon afterwards suppuration occurred also in the knee. From the former abscess about half an ounce of thick pus was withdrawn by aspiration. The knee abscess was treated by free lateral incisions and drainage. The hip-joint trouble was then going on satisfactorily. On July 28th a pyannic abscess, which had been slowly form- ing, was incised at, the right wrist; this got well very rapidly. Pyocmic abscesses were also opened, washed, and drained in various t>thcr situations, as in the right elbow and elsewhere. The knee abscess went on badly, so that in August the thigh was amputated in the lower third. The amputation wound did well; but the hip-joint disease, which until recently had been progressing favourably, got rapidly worse,