. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . stened with cool waterwere kept constantly applied to the knee for manydays. Very little swelling followed the accident,and his recovery was rapid and complete. A man was received into the North LondonHospital, with a partial dislocation of the tibia out-wards, and, although the knee was much swollen,the nature of the injury was easily knee was immovable, and the toes turned out-wards. Mr. Hallam, the house surgeon, reduced itby extension and counter-extension made by his own Mr. Pitt records a similar case in a youn
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . stened with cool waterwere kept constantly applied to the knee for manydays. Very little swelling followed the accident,and his recovery was rapid and complete. A man was received into the North LondonHospital, with a partial dislocation of the tibia out-wards, and, although the knee was much swollen,the nature of the injury was easily knee was immovable, and the toes turned out-wards. Mr. Hallam, the house surgeon, reduced itby extension and counter-extension made by his own Mr. Pitt records a similar case in a young lady, produced by a falldown a flight of stairs. It was reduced easily by extension andcounter-extension. Inflammation followed, but it was finally con-trolled, and she regained the use of her In one case of subluxation, mentioned by Sir Astley Cooper, andin a second recorded by Bransby Cooper, the recovery of the func-tions of the joint did not seem to have been so rapid; the joint re-maining unstable and tender for a long time Subluxation of the headof the tibia outwards. § 4. Dislocations of the Head of the Tibia Inwards. There is nothing peculiar in either the sighs, condition, or treat-ment of this accident, as distinguished from a dislocation outwards,to demand of us a special consideration. Sir Astley Cooper has mentioned two cases of subluxation inwards,and Mr. B. Cooper has added to these a third. Sir Astley remarksthat in the first accident, the only one indeed which he had himselfever seen, he was struck with three circumstances: first, the greatdeformity of the knee from the projection of the tibia; second, theease with which the bone was reduced by direct extension; and third,by the little inflammation which followed. The second case of which 1 Hallam, Amer. Journ. Med. Sci., vol. xix. p. 251. 2 Pitt, ibid., vol. xxxi. p. 465. 3 B. Coopers ed. of Sir Ast., op. cit.,pp. 211-13. HEAD OF THE TIBIA BACKWARDS AND OUTWARDS. 681 Fig. 278. Sir Astle
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