Notes on the morbid anatomy of chronic rheumatic arthritis of the shoulder and other joints. Remarks on interstitial absorption of the neck of the femur from bruise of the hip, similarity of the morbid appearances to those seen in the rheumatic disease of this joint / by Edwin Canton.

  • Canton, Edwin, 1817-1885.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Notes on the morbid anatomy of chronic rheumatic arthritis of the shoulder and other joints. Remarks on interstitial absorption of the neck of the femur from bruise of the hip, similarity of the morbid appearances to those seen in the rheumatic disease of this joint / by Edwin Canton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    found in the joint, and the transverse ligament be converted into a bridge of bone, &c. Such changes, I believe, have not unfrequently been regarded (in the absence of a history of the case) as aggravated exam- ples, merely, of that atrophy of the part natural to declining years. In the examinations I have myself made of the hip in a large number of subjects (male and female), who had lived upwards of sixty, seventy, or eighty years, I have never been able to find any other alteration than a descent of the cervix, and that to a less degree than I imagined would be found at this period of life, from the description usually given by authors of the horizontal position of the neck of the' femur, which they consider as characterising the bone in an elderly person. I should mention, in addition, that a thinness of the cortex of this part, and a more open condition of the cancelli, was usually to be noticed. In three female subjects, each more than ninety years of age the cervix I found was but little altered from its natural obhquity. I have occasionally, however, met with a hip-joint (and in general both sides had suffered) where the morbid changes previously alluded to were present; whilst the existence, ordinarily, of analogous alterati- ons in some other articulations would more definitely indicate—though such corroboration is needless—the real nature of the affection. Mr. Adams, in his account of the rheumatic disease E