The medical age : a semi-monthly journal of medicine and surgery . years is that of Dr. Mac-Ewen, which consists of cutting the lower end of the femur about half an inchabove the epiphysis. This is done subcutaneously. In my cases the perios-teum was raised and the bone sawed under that membrane, which was raisedfrom the surface of the bone by means of the elevator (Fig. 12) which Idevised some years ago. The operation is always done under strict aseptic precautions, and nounfavorable symptoms followed in any of my cases. The result can be betterappreciated by reference to the plates in the fo
The medical age : a semi-monthly journal of medicine and surgery . years is that of Dr. Mac-Ewen, which consists of cutting the lower end of the femur about half an inchabove the epiphysis. This is done subcutaneously. In my cases the perios-teum was raised and the bone sawed under that membrane, which was raisedfrom the surface of the bone by means of the elevator (Fig. 12) which Idevised some years ago. The operation is always done under strict aseptic precautions, and nounfavorable symptoms followed in any of my cases. The result can be betterappreciated by reference to the plates in the following cases. In about fourweeks the patients are usually able to walk around quite comfortably. Case 5.—L. J , seven years of age. Parents state that other members of their family in youth had been unhealthy and troubled with curvatures ofthe bones. This boy was operated upon February 18, 1893, when the limbwas put up in a plaster-of-Paris bandage. On the 12th day of the followingMarch the cast was removed and union was found to be firm, but as a DEFORMITIES.
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