Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle joints : with their deformities, treated by a new and efficient method / by Hugh Owen Thomas.

  • Thomas, Hugh Owen, 1834-1891.
Date:
1876
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Credit: Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle joints : with their deformities, treated by a new and efficient method / by Hugh Owen Thomas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In France, Bonnet seems to have designed the favourite appliance ; but in vol. ii. of his Traite des Maladies des Articulations, page 327, he does not report well of it, for the reason, I believe, that it extends no higher than the pelvis. Charriere pro- longed the upper portion of the instrument, causing it to embrace the trunk—an important improvement. See fplate 1, fig. 1.) This machine is an efficacious one, but very cumbrous ; and owing to its high price (250 francs), is only attainable by wealthy patients and the larger charities. We may describe this instrument as one of posterior fixation. Our professional brethren in the United States have been most prolific in the invention of means for treating this disease. To Dr. H. S. Davis, of New York, is accorded priority in the' invention of the Perineal and Side Splint with Counter Extension, (plate 1, fig. 2.) It is arranged with the intention that the patient should not remain at rest, but that he might continue to perform all the movements of his joint. The designer of this instrument supposes that