. The diseases of children : medical and surgical. expression of pain, but by leading questions complaintcould be elicited of pain in other parts of where there was no reasonat all to suspect the presence of disease. The complaints were incompatiblewith what we know of organic disease, and the case was clearly shown to behysterical. 68/ CHAPTER XXXI HIP DISEASE Hip Bisease ^ in the ordinary sense of the term— tuberculous diseaseof the hip joint—is almost entirely an affection of childhood ; thus only T^patients, the subjects of this disease, were over twenty years of age out of at
. The diseases of children : medical and surgical. expression of pain, but by leading questions complaintcould be elicited of pain in other parts of where there was no reasonat all to suspect the presence of disease. The complaints were incompatiblewith what we know of organic disease, and the case was clearly shown to behysterical. 68/ CHAPTER XXXI HIP DISEASE Hip Bisease ^ in the ordinary sense of the term— tuberculous diseaseof the hip joint—is almost entirely an affection of childhood ; thus only T^patients, the subjects of this disease, were over twenty years of age out of atotal of 619 cases collected by ourselves, and probably in most of these thedisease had begun in an earlier age. It is somewhat more commonly metwith in boys than girls, and is much more frequent among the poorer than inthe well-to-do classes. Mention has already been made in general terms ofthe pathology and causation of the disease : that the hip may be taken as thejoint in which primary tuberculosis of the bones forming the articulation is.
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