Cleft palate and adenoids : treatment of simple fractures by operation : diseases of joints : operative treatment of cancer : acquired deformities : antrectomyernia, etc. / W. Arbuthnot Lane.

  • Lane, William Arbuthnot, 1856-1943.
Date:
[1900]
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Credit: Cleft palate and adenoids : treatment of simple fractures by operation : diseases of joints : operative treatment of cancer : acquired deformities : antrectomyernia, etc. / W. Arbuthnot Lane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    as free as on the right side. The new joint is perfectly secure^ and allows of no vertical play. Considering the fact that before the operation the child dragged the leg, and was unable to use it with any security for purposes of locomotion, and that only five months have elapsed since the operation, I do not think one could imaaine a better result. Fig. 165 shows the hoy lyiug on his hack holding his foot, lie having raised it into this position. In the last case the femur moved freely on the dorsum ilii. In cases of fibrous or bony ankylosis it is necessary to cut through the attachment with chisels, leaving as long a neck to the femur as possible, and shaping its extremity so that it will perform the functions of a head. When the hip-joint is ankylosed either in an