. The diseases of children : medical and surgical. ii/j iiiiy. Fig. 144.—The hands of an adult showing the efiects of Tuberculous Dactjditis in childhood. and useless. Sometimes the destruction is so great that amputation isrequired. When seen in the earlier stages, constitutional treatment, withfixation of the finger on a splint and gentle pressure, will sometimes succeed material diluted with serum, and with simple inflammatory products, and not thetrue pus of an acute abscess.— Vide Watson Cheynes Lectures, Brit. Med. Jour. 1890,for a good description of the process. SypJiilitic Dact
. The diseases of children : medical and surgical. ii/j iiiiy. Fig. 144.—The hands of an adult showing the efiects of Tuberculous Dactjditis in childhood. and useless. Sometimes the destruction is so great that amputation isrequired. When seen in the earlier stages, constitutional treatment, withfixation of the finger on a splint and gentle pressure, will sometimes succeed material diluted with serum, and with simple inflammatory products, and not thetrue pus of an acute abscess.— Vide Watson Cheynes Lectures, Brit. Med. Jour. 1890,for a good description of the process. SypJiilitic Dactylitis—Leontiasis Ossea 659 in arresting the disease. It has been recommended to excise the bone sub-pcriosteally in the early stage, and this would no doubt cut short the disease,l)ut the finger is not likely to be of much use. It is better treatment to waitpatiently, and keeping the finger quietly fixed on a splint to try the effectsof pressure and general hygiene ; when sequestra are piesent they must,of course, be removed, and should no progress be
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