The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . cribed by iiarwell as strumous, and by Athol Johnstone asscrofulous si/novitis, and which 1 have myself ventured to call yeldtinous arthritis. No benetit having resulted from careful treatment by rest and moderate extension inthe hands of the gentleman wlio liad had cliarge of tiie case before it came under my care,and bein<T fully satisfied that the disease had progressed too far to admit of recoverywithout operative interference, I determined to resort to excision, and accordingly, on
The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . cribed by iiarwell as strumous, and by Athol Johnstone asscrofulous si/novitis, and which 1 have myself ventured to call yeldtinous arthritis. No benetit having resulted from careful treatment by rest and moderate extension inthe hands of the gentleman wlio liad had cliarge of tiie case before it came under my care,and bein<T fully satisfied that the disease had progressed too far to admit of recoverywithout operative interference, I determined to resort to excision, and accordingly, onJanuary 27, 1870, the patient liaving been placed under the influence of etlier, I openedthe joint by a single longitudinal incision on its inner and posterior side, and, turningout tlie bones, removed with Butchers saw their articulating extremities, taking a meresliaving from the head of the radius, wiiich was not diseased. I then clipped away thedisoro^anized soft tissues, closed the wound with the lead suture, and placed the arm atrest on a well-padded internal angular splint. Fig. 7U3. Fig.
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