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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    of the pelvis is masked, though often even then present. This method of diagnosis will demonstrate the existence of slight flexion and contraction as co- existing with the apparent lengthening. This obli- quity of the pelvis, and deceptive elongation of the limb, is sometimes present in knee joint disease, when the complaint has advanced to a chronic con- dition, and the joint is deformed by fixed flexion. Extreme flexion, with thickening and enlarge- ment of the acetabulum and head of the femur, in disease of the hip joint, is, even now, frequently described as dislocation of this joint, an occurrence which I have never yet observed, and which must be extremely rare. There may be displacement of the trochanter, as far as the tubercle on the outer lip of the crest of the ilium, causing a shortening varying with the age of the patient and proportion of the parts, when the head of the femur has been destroyed. This certainly cannot correctly be called dislocation of the hip joint, and to attempt its reduction would be absurd. In nearly every case reported, and in