The principles of surgery . Fig. TREATMENT OF DISEASE OF CARTILAGE. 451 more or less rotation, or other displacement; one muscle, or set of mus-cles, exerting a supremacy of power. Thus, in such affection of the knee,the bones of the leg are dislocated backwards into the popliteal space; andat the same time the head of the tibia is usually rotated outwards, bythe preponderating action of the biceps flexor cruris. Such important local changes are not unattended with sympathy ofthe system. At first, the constitutional symptoms are but slight; littlemore than general discomfort, or slight f
The principles of surgery . Fig. TREATMENT OF DISEASE OF CARTILAGE. 451 more or less rotation, or other displacement; one muscle, or set of mus-cles, exerting a supremacy of power. Thus, in such affection of the knee,the bones of the leg are dislocated backwards into the popliteal space; andat the same time the head of the tibia is usually rotated outwards, bythe preponderating action of the biceps flexor cruris. Such important local changes are not unattended with sympathy ofthe system. At first, the constitutional symptoms are but slight; littlemore than general discomfort, or slight feverishness, being complainedof. But when pain becomes undoubted and steadily crescent, inflam-matory fever is declared with more or less intensity; usually accompa-nied by involuntary startings of the affected limb—especially duringsleep—by the jarring and motion of which pain is fearfully aggravated,and the inflammation hurried on in its destructive tendency. Ultimately,in the open, lax, discharging, perhaps dislocated state of
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