Notes on the morbid anatomy of chronic rheumatic arthritis of the shoulder and other joints / [Edwin Canton].

  • Canton, Edwin, 1817-1885.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Notes on the morbid anatomy of chronic rheumatic arthritis of the shoulder and other joints / [Edwin Canton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    asthma since the year 1809, and has been prevented by it from lying on his right side when in bed. Case II.—Alexandre Simon, set. 82, an inmate of St. Martin's Workhouse. About four years ago he had a severe attack of rheumatism in the right shoulder-joint; this lasted for several months, at the expiration of which time the disease quitted the part, and immediately settled itself in the hip of the same side. Since this latter period the right leg has gra¬ dually become shorter than its fellow, and its length is now less than natural by the extent of more than an inch. He has for a long while been obliged to move about with crutches. Three months since he suffered from a second attack of rheumatism, which continued for a few weeks, in the right shoulder, the movements of which were suspended, in consequence, for three weeks, as the slightest motion materially aggravated the attendant pain. At present there is great stiffness of the part, and a constant “ wearisome pain, which becomes worse at night, but is not increased by damp weather. The different movements of the joint may be executed, but with unnatural limitation of them, and any effort made to extend this boundary induces pain in the joint and at the insertion of the deltoid muscle. These parts suffer also in abduction and ro¬ tation of the arm especially. On applying a hand over the articulation, and directing the humerus in various ways, articular crepitus may be felt and heard,