Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle joints and their treatment by a new and efficient method . Plate 17. 67 shows the boy standing ; plate 17 shows him with the knee extremely flexed. These two plates enable the reader to see what amount of action the knee possessed, and the extent of its recovery. The case was very complicated at oneperiod of the treatment, owing to the kidney disease and typhus above adverted to. Thisdid not, however, induce me to interrupt thetreatment of the knee, for had this been donethe patient would have had the additionalirritation of the knee to suffer from, and mus
Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle joints and their treatment by a new and efficient method . Plate 17. 67 shows the boy standing ; plate 17 shows him with the knee extremely flexed. These two plates enable the reader to see what amount of action the knee possessed, and the extent of its recovery. The case was very complicated at oneperiod of the treatment, owing to the kidney disease and typhus above adverted to. Thisdid not, however, induce me to interrupt thetreatment of the knee, for had this been donethe patient would have had the additionalirritation of the knee to suffer from, and musthave certainly succumbed to the twofold dis-turbance. I have always objected to removing theappliances in such complicated cases, as theadditional irritation of the secondary complaint,superadded to the existing disease, if neglected,would much diminish the patients chance ofrecovery. Here we have a case of knee joint disease (58 with partial anchylosis, placed under uninter-rupted enforced rest for five years, at the endof which period there was diminished anchylosis,and finally at this date, 1875,
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