A treatise on the diseases of the joints : being the observations for which the prize for 1806 was adjudged by the Royal College of Surgeons in London / by Samuel Cooper.

  • Cooper, Samuel, 1780-1848.
Date:
1811
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of the joints : being the observations for which the prize for 1806 was adjudged by the Royal College of Surgeons in London / by Samuel Cooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the exciting cause of most obstinate dis- eases in the articulation. In the ordinary state of white swel- lings the skin does not appear to be hot- ter than that of a healthy knee, and the integuments can be handled without producing any particular uneasiness to the patient : in short, we have every reason to regard the malady as one of a chronic nature. When a surgeon is called to a case in which there is evidently acute inflam- mation present, there can be no doubt that topical bleeding and cold saturnine lotions are means which may be emi- nently serviceable ; and what is implied by the phrase antiphlogistic treatment may now be advantageously employed. But such are my feelings upon this mat- ter that I cannot withhold my strongest censure from those practitioners who lose weeks and months in the adoption ofstrch treatment. The plan is truly beneficial and scientific as long as the in- teguments are hot and tender, and the joint is affected with very acute and o-eneral pain, and the patient is indis- posed with the usual symptoms of in- flammatory fever. But no sooner is this stage past than such treatment be-