Report of surgical cases, occurring in hospital practice / by George M. Jones.

  • Jones, George Matthew, 1805-1861.
Date:
1857
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report of surgical cases, occurring in hospital practice / by George M. Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    FRACTURE OF THE LEFT FEMUR, CONSEQUENT ON DISEASE OF THE BONE. AMPUTATION OF THE DISEASED ENDS TO THE EXTENT OF NEAR THREE INCHES—PERFECT RECOVERY, WITH A USEFUL LIMB. Case 2.—Henry Le Breton, aged 31, by trade a house painter, healthy looking, florid complexion, moderately stout, five feet nine and a half inches in height, was admit- ted into the hospital May 1st, 1856, in consequence of an accident he met with two days before. He then gave the following account of the accident, and of the symptoms which preceded it:— For five months he occasionally experienced (when walking) a sudden halt, which obliged him to rest for two or three seconds ; days together he was without it, on other occasions it occured three and four times in as many hours ; this he at first disregarded, and attributed it more to flying rheumatic pains than to any other cause ; it never kept him from his employment, though he latterly rather dreaded mounting ladders and preferred, that work which could be accomplished standing. On the 29th April he jumped off a wall not three feet high, and so injured the left thigh as to be totally unable to walk. He was at once seen by a Surgeon, and two days after became an inmate of the hospital. The limb on examination was discovered to be about three quarters of an inch shorter than the right; there existed extraordinary mobility a little below the trochanter, in fact a complete universal joint; no crepitus was however, distin- guishable ; all signs of constitutional disturbance were wanting ; the parts were cool; no tention, and a total absence of pain ; deformity was alone apparent. Suitable appliances were at once employed, and the injured parts examined a month afterwards. Appearances and symptoms were then exactly the same as at first. Another four weeks’ trial was allowed, and the only visible alteration then, was increased