The lectures of Boyer, upon diseases of the bones / arranged into a systematic treatise by A. Richerand ; translated from the French by M. Farrell.

Boyer, Alexis, Baron, 1757-1833.

Date:: 1807

Credit: The lectures of Boyer, upon diseases of the bones / arranged into a systematic treatise by A. Richerand ; translated from the French by M. Farrell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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$(Rickets. Continued.) —air, and diet; exposure to the sun ; materials of the bed, and position of the patient if very young ; chairs; walk, ing to be avoided, ii. ii, 12. —frictions useful, ii. 12. * —clothing, ii. 12. —qualities of nurses (of children at the breast) ; food for weaned children ; exercise, ii. 13. partiaular remedies: in complaints from dentition ; or in worms, ii. 13. —this last complaint very common in ricketty patients ; its signs, ii. 14. means of discussing the swelling of the mesenteric glands ; tickling every day, to produce hearty laughter, vejy useful, ii. 14. if procetdin^ in any degree from syphilis or scrofula, the treatment for those diseases to be recurred to, ii. 14. it would be a principal object, if practicable, to restore the hardness of the bones (See i. i); madder has no effect in this purpose, ii. 15. the great end, thus, is to restore general health and strength, ii. 15. mechanical means are ill adapted for this disease, ii. 15, 16. Roller ; its inefficacy for the purposes to which it is applied in the treatment of fractures, i. 37, Sac-rum; this bone not much exposed to fractures, i. 120. treatment, in those accidents, i. 121. Not capable of luxation^ ii. 84. case of relaxation of the sacro-iliac synchondrosis: See the 3.i t\c\e Jmomiaata ossa, (luxation). Scapula; this bone not much exposed to fracture, from its position, i. 127. —its different parts, however, vary in this respect, i. 127. these$