Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IT. ILLUSTRATIVE CASES. The ensuing cases will serve, I trust, to exhibit the effects of this method of treatment. They, at the same time, illustrate the nature of the cases in which the operation has been resorted to, and the progress made under very various forms of disease, conditions of constitution, age, and of external circumstances. I have thought it well to enter into particulars and details, as I believe such minutiae confer an additional value to the narration, and afford data for those who have not seen the cases, nor employed this operation or mode of after-treatment, for arriving at their own conclusions as to its expediency. Case I.--W. F., aged 24. A farm-servant from Ayrshire. Admitted to Chalmers' Hospital on the 24th May 1864, under Dr Watson's care. This lad has suffered for four years from a chronic affection of the left knee-joint, consequent upon an injury received in the stable. From the account given by the patient, the joint appears to have been violently wrenched, then to have inflamed, and to have been greatly swollen. After a brief period of quiescence, which had permitted the first effects of the accident to subside, he had once and again attempted work, and as frequently been laid aside. This alternation of repose and work continued for some months, till he was obliged to give up his place, and, from want of means and friends, he had no resource but to become an inmate of the poorhouse. While there, after severe and long-continued suffering, an abscess formed in connexion with the joint, and discharged itself by lateral and posterior openings. This occurred about a year since. On admission; generally, the patient is extremely feeble and anaemic. His appetite is voracious. He has lately suffered from...
