Identifier: diseasesofhipkne00thom (find matches)
Title: Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle joints and their treatment by a new and efficient method
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Thomas, Hugh Owen, 1834-1891
Subjects: Hip joint Knee Ankle Hip Joint Knee Ankle Joint Diseases
Publisher: Liverpool : T. Dobb & Co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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19 than can be rendered by tlie village blacksmithand saddler, and the poorer class of suffererswill at a small cost be assisted as effectually asthe wealthier classes. We will suppose the patient, a boy of about10 years of age, having been examined, and theaffection diagnosed as disease of the right hipjoint, the surgeon proceeds to measure himfor the instrument. He requests the patientto stand on the left limb (the one supposedto be sound), and then places under the soleof the right foot a block or a book, oneinch thick, telling him to rest the foot of theaffected limb on it. If the spine is then straighthe is ready to have the contour of the soundlimb taken. If the spine is not of normal line,then add another block, or several blocks, untilthe unsound limb is raised sufficiently to allow thespine to resume its natural condition, as inj)late 7. Now take a long Hat piece of malleableiron, one inch by a quarter for an adult, and three quarters of an inch by a quarter forchildren, and

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