The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . ost markedly contracted, and the thigh is thrown out-ward, without, however, losing its flexion. Subsequently the abduction disajvpears, and adduction takes its place. The cause of this change is quite occult;at present we are without any clue even to an inference as to its nature. Now it is upon these two positions of abduction and adduction that appa-rent lencrthening and shortening of the limb depend; thus, abduction placesthe thigh at a certain obtuse angle with a line drawn between th
The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . ost markedly contracted, and the thigh is thrown out-ward, without, however, losing its flexion. Subsequently the abduction disajvpears, and adduction takes its place. The cause of this change is quite occult;at present we are without any clue even to an inference as to its nature. Now it is upon these two positions of abduction and adduction that appa-rent lencrthening and shortening of the limb depend; thus, abduction placesthe thigh at a certain obtuse angle with a line drawn between the two aceta-bula—for instance, at the angle a b c (Fig. 656); but the individual willnot remain in that posture, with the legs straddled wide apart, but will getthem more or less parallel, still maintaining the angle of abduction; the onlypossible way of doing this is to let the pelvis on the affected side droop, as theone knee is brought to lie near the other ; the skeleton then assumes the pos-ture seen iu Fig. 657; that is to say, the angle a 6 c is maintained, the transverse Fig. 656. Fig.
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