On the influences of mechanical and physiological rest in the treatment of accidents and surgical diseases, and the diagnostic value of pain : a course of lectures, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in the years 1860, 1861, and 1862 / John Hilton.

  • Hilton, John, 1804-1878.
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1863
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    LECTURE XV. PAOI! Dislocation of Right Femur; Reduced Two Months afterwards ; Death from Pyaania—Hip Disease supposed to he Scrofulous cured by Anchylosis after Rest; no Distinct Ahscess—Hip Disease in a Phthisical Patient cured by Anchylosis; Ahscess absorbed—Dis- cussion of the Propriety of opening Abscesses connected with Dis- eased Joints—Hip Disease ; Bony Anchylosis ; Opening of Abscess deferred ; Recovery—Chronic Abscess absorbed—Abscess in Dorsal Region absorbed—Disease of Hip-joint; Anchylosis and Large Ab- scess absorbed—Diseased Hip-joint, with Suppuration of the Left Side, cured by Four Months' Rest, Abscess absorbed—Diseased Hip- joint, supposed to be Gonorrhceal; Abscess opened by Nature ; Por- tions of Bone extruded by Granulations ; cured by Eest, with Permanent Anchylosis 3,?> LECTURE XVI. Hip-joint Disease ; no known Accident; Sequel to Scarlet Fever ; Cured by Anchylosis, after a few Months of Rest—Local Affections after such Diseases as Scarlatina, Measles, &c. arise from previously Unhealthy Structures suffering Kapid Deterioration from the Effect of the Constitutional Disturbance—Two Cases in illustration—Dis- eased Hip-joint with Necrosis of Acetabulum cured by R est—Hip - joint Disease; Anchylosis, with Thigh somewhat bent—Hip-joint Disease suspected, Keal Cause being Cerebral—Curved Sacrum, causing Outlying Symptoms of Hip-joint Disease—Congenital Mal- position of both Hip-joints—Diseases of Sacro-iliac Joints—Disease of the last Lumbar Vertebra? simulating that of the Hip-joint— Severe Disease of Spine close to Pelvis cured by Rest—Disease between Sacrum and Ilium, with Intense Pain in the Leg of the same side LECTUEE XVII. Sacro-iliac Disease in a Boy aged Five, cured by Mechanical Rest— Sacro-iliac Disease in a Man of Forty-two, cured by Rest—Sacro- iliac Disease in the Left Side after Parturition ; Suppuration within the Pelvis, Abscess absorbed,' cured by Rest—Disease of the Sacro- coccygeal Joint, from Injury, cured by Rest—Inflammation of the Coccygeal Joints, from Injury, cured by Rest—Pain in the Posterior Portion of the Coccyx in Hysterical Cases, Explanation of—Case of Non-development of both Patella? Tip to the Age of Three and a Half Years—Disease of Knee-joint (Scrofulous ?) treated by Me- chanical Rest, cured by Firm Bony Consolidation—Diseased Knee- ■ joint, from Injury, with partial Caries or Necrosis of the Patella, cured by Rest^Traumatic Dislocation of the Tibia, treated by Rest, and Application of Cold—Wounds penetrating the Knee-joint treated by Cold and Rest—Disease between the Shaft and Lower Epiphysis of the Femur—Disease of Knee-joint; Biceps divided and Limb straightened—Old Diseased Knee-joint, Flexors divided . 41