Fractures of the neck of the thigh-bone / by R.D. Mussey.

  • Mussey, R. D. (Reuben Dimond), 1780-1866.
Date:
1857
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Fractures of the neck of the thigh-bone / by R.D. Mussey. 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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    ttracted from the American Journal of the Medical Sciences for April 1857.] FRACTURES OF THE CK OF THE THIGH-BO NEV BY R. D.NMUSSEY„M.D., i lOFESSOR OF SURGERY IN THE MIAMI MEDICAL COLLEGE AT CINCINNATI, OHIO. WITH NINETEEN WOOD-CUTS. I.—Mr. S., aged 78 years, a hardy yeoman from one of the hilly of New England, when more than a hundred miles from home, upset Ihorse wagon, fell on his left hip, and could not get up. He was car- ) a house, and was visited by Dr. J. C. Dalton, a highly distinguished >nal gentleman, who pronounced the case to be one of fracture of the the thigh-bone, and proceeded to apply a modification of Desault's iint. In four or five days the patient became so restive under his con- ; among strangers, that he employed a carpenter to prepare him a box lould receive a bed together with himself and splint, with a view to (ome. When the doctor heard of this, he remonstrated with no small ff emphasis against the project, but without avail; the old man said c as well die in one way as another, and home he would go. When was ready, he was wagoned home, and was carried forty miles on the of his journey. 3en days after the injury, I visited him. He made a somewhat sin- tearanoe lying in his box, which, to accommodate himself and splint, over six feet high, was not much less than ten feet in length. On the bedclothes, I perceived that his knee and foot were turned con- outwards. I took off the splint, and gave some passive motion to without his complaining of pain; I then flexed the thigh to a right h the body, and kept it a minute or two in that position. This, too without giving pain. On flexing the thigh to an angle a little acute' aained that it hurt him in his groin. Pressure with the fingers upon