Spontaneous dislocation of left hip joint, occuring in the course of scarlatinal rheumatism : complicated with necrosis of right tibia, and partial dislocation of right knee backwards / by John Ewens.

  • Ewens, John.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Spontaneous dislocation of left hip joint, occuring in the course of scarlatinal rheumatism : complicated with necrosis of right tibia, and partial dislocation of right knee backwards / by John Ewens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tions ; especially the second attempt to straighten the knee which was followed by extensive suppuration, for a time threatening even his life; also to the early and firm union of the bones following the excision of the knee joint. Fig. 4. My chief reason for reporting this case is that spontaneous dislocation of the hip-joint is sufficiently rare as to justify its being placed on record in the pages of a medical journal. In the valuable “ Medical Digest” of Dr. Neale (ed. 1891) I find only two references to dislocation of the hip-joint, otherwise than as the result of an accident, voluntary dislo- cation, or ulcerative joint disease, and these are recorded in the Medical Times and Gazette, vol. 1, 1862, page 40 ; and in the British Medical Journal, vol. 1, 1883, page 1126. The Pathological Society Reports contain no references to such cases,