Practical observations on the disease of the joints, commonly called white-swelling : with remarks on caries, necrosis, and scrofulous abscess, in which a new and successful method of treating these complaints is pointed out / by Bryan Crowther.

  • Crowther, Bryan, 1765-1840.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Practical observations on the disease of the joints, commonly called white-swelling : with remarks on caries, necrosis, and scrofulous abscess, in which a new and successful method of treating these complaints is pointed out / by Bryan Crowther. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ligaments and articulating surfaces of tlie, ends of the bones, which occur in the white- swelHng, where the disease first begins in the cavity of the joint. Patients, in the most early stage of this species of white-swelling, suffer pain, which they describe to be in the bone it- self. The joint in this case can be extended, or is capable of being bent with the most perfect ease and facility ; the part will bear handling, without the patient manifesting any pain, and the integuments will admit of being pinched up and will be found un- affected. As the disease advances, the soft parts participate in the malady; fluids are ef- fused within the articulation and different parts about the joint; the distension in- creasing, the joint becomes painful to the touch, or on motion, inflammation at length supervenes, and ulceration follows. Should the parts now be exposed by dissection, the ligaments will be found in a thickened state, and sometimes destroyed; and in diseases