Cases, and observations on lithotomy : including hints for the more ready and safe performance of the operation ... : to which are added, observations on the chimney-sweeper's cancer, and other miscellaneous remarks / by W. Simmons.

  • Simmons, W. (William), 1762-1830.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Cases, and observations on lithotomy : including hints for the more ready and safe performance of the operation ... : to which are added, observations on the chimney-sweeper's cancer, and other miscellaneous remarks / by W. Simmons. 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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    ON SUPPOSED DISLOCATIONS. I HAVE long entertained an opinion, that it would be advantageous to extend the limb, after the dislocation, or severe con- tusion of a joint, where it does not, within a seasonable time, become again subser- vient to the purposes of volition. The se- condary consequence, as in every other con- tusion, is inflammation j which seldom ad- vances so high as to terminate otherwise than by resolution. But, during the in- flammatory stage, membranous adhesions may, and probably do, form within the joint, or exterior to the capsular ligament, or both j or the muscles and tendons pas- sing over the joint, or near it, become fixed by what has been called the adhesive in-