Two cases of excision of the knee-joint for forcible separation of the lower epiphysis from the shaft of the femur / by Edwin Canton.

  • Canton, Edwin, 1817-1885.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Two cases of excision of the knee-joint for forcible separation of the lower epiphysis from the shaft of the femur / by Edwin Canton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    jimcture:—e. g. Sir C. Boll^ describes a case where osseous consolidation occurred ; but the limb was obliged to be re- moved many years afterwards, on account of a popliteal aneu- rism occasioned by the projecting extremity of the shaft. Not only may the epiphysis of a hone be separated from its shaft by violence, but it may also become disunited and dis- placed from disease. An interesting specimen was exhibited at the Pathological Society of Dublin’’, of a separated upper * Loc. cit. p. 42. Dublin Journal of Medical Science, 1839. I am indebted to my colleague, Mr. Harwell, for the subjoined reference, wherein, I believe, wo may find the earliest re- corded instance of the surgical removal of the head of the femur .—“ Coxm articuH suppuratio cum secessione coxm femoris solidata. Anno 1730. Puella rustica, retat. 14, annorura coxm articulus tume.scit dolet perumpetur chinirgus dilatat foramen natttrd factum, extrahit totum ossis femoris caput. Subjecitposthfic in ulceris cavi- tatum, Myrrhcc tincturam porro Jluxum Ting. fel. TF., stringat earn deniquc arcto vinculo raro deligat, atque sex septimanariim curriculo consolidat, ut puellam post- modum libere liceat manca inseperit.” John Daniel Schlishting, M. D. Philosophical Transactioas, vol. xlii. p. 274. D