Observations on the disease of the hip joint : to which are added, some remarks on white swelling of the knee, the caries of the joint of the wrist and other similar complaints : the whole illustrated by cases, and engravings taken fron the diseased parts / by the late Edward Ford.

  • Ford, Edward, 1746-1809.
Date:
1810
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Credit: Observations on the disease of the hip joint : to which are added, some remarks on white swelling of the knee, the caries of the joint of the wrist and other similar complaints : the whole illustrated by cases, and engravings taken fron the diseased parts / by the late Edward Ford. 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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    quently, promote and accelerate every bad fymptom, refultiiig foouer or later, from the ftrumous indifpofition of the affe£led part. It may flill be thought, and urged agauift what has been advanced, that it contravenes a common opinion, that the caufe of this dif- eafe is not primarily to be looked for in the joint itfelf, that it may as wfell be fuppofed, to originate in the more external parts, in the in- volucra of the joint, in the cellular membrane, in the perioileum of the bones, m the mufcles, or in the lymphatic glands. It may be said too, that fuch a caries of bouc, or fach a dif- pofition to caries, as is ftated in the cafe, above mentioned, cannot well be conceived to exift in fo earlj a period of this complaint, and yet continue fo long latent, to all external appear- ance inadive, or by its operationiJ produftive of no very dangerous ill efFefts. This objection is the more fpecious and plaufible, as it is admitted, that the fubjects of this diforder, neverthelefs enjoy a mediocrity of general health, and, for no incofiderable fpace of time, are but little difl-refled by its