. The Richmond and Louisville medical journal. ek, and freemovements given to all the joints, ankle,knee, and hip, otherwise we may anchylosethem, although they are not wire cuirass should be used from amonth to two months, or more, accordingto necessity, after which the patient can beput upon the long or short splint, andallowed to exercise, thereby increasinghis prospects of perfect motion of the newjoint. In many of the cases which I have ex-sected, the motion has been as perfect andHiL^ complete as in the normal joint, and inone case, that of Adolph Eousell (, 17, 18),
. The Richmond and Louisville medical journal. ek, and freemovements given to all the joints, ankle,knee, and hip, otherwise we may anchylosethem, although they are not wire cuirass should be used from amonth to two months, or more, accordingto necessity, after which the patient can beput upon the long or short splint, andallowed to exercise, thereby increasinghis prospects of perfect motion of the newjoint. In many of the cases which I have ex-sected, the motion has been as perfect andHiL^ complete as in the normal joint, and inone case, that of Adolph Eousell (, 17, 18), the motion is greater in that joint than uponthe opposite side, and the limb less than a quarter of aninch shorter than the other, although it was sawn threeinches below the top of the trochanter major, the head andneck having been entirely absorbed, and the acetabulum per-forated. (Fig. 19. The four small pieces of bone are frag-ments from the acetabulum.) Only one of my exsections hasrecovered by anchylosis, and that was from neglect in the. MORBUS COXAEIUS. 551 after-treatment, I never having seen the patient after theoperation for two years, and the gentleman who had it in chargehaving had no experience in the treatment of this class of the other patients that recovered have more or less goodmotion, and infinitely less deformity than those which haverecovered by natures process. Fig. 17. Fig. 18.
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