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

  • Thomas, Hugh Owen, 1834-1891.
Date:
1878
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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, with an introduction by Rushton Parker. 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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    CHAPTER II. DIAGNOSIS OF INFLAMMATION OF THE HIP- JOINT.. We have hitherto had no method of determining with certainty the existence of this disease at a very early period, except in very rare cases, where, for example, acute inflammation is very rapidly developed without the usual premonitory warnings, such as lameness, pain round the patella, disturbed sleep and wasting of the nates. We have also to guard against the possibility of mistaking abscesses, (connected with the spine, or arising within the pelvis), sciatica, or hysterical simulation of this complaint, for Morbus Coxs, the