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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    I have feen feveral inftances, where the *' ohtufe procefs of the os innominatum has ^' been an inch and a half lower than its ^^ naturalftuation,'' *' This diforder is fometimes brought on by *• colds, which have been caught by fitting *' on the damp ground. Sometimes it is the '' confequence of external injuries, as falls, */ leaping down from high places, &c. and ^' very often no aflignable reafon can be given *^ for it. It happens indifferently to perfons '' of all ages and conftitutions. I could never '.^ difcover, after the moll: careful inquiry, that '^ thofe of fcrophulous habits, were naore ^* liable to its attacks than others, who had *' ever been free from glandular obftruc- '' tions. Its approaches are generally made by ^* flow and almoft imperceptible degrees. A '' kind of wearinefs and inaptitude to motion ^* is at nrft perceived in the limb; which, ^^ in children, has frequently been taken for *Vfome trick they had got in walking, till ** the fubfequent pains have, at length, given