Case of a congenital disease, or, Malformation of the thigh-bone : illustrating the pathology of interstitial absorption of the cervix femoris / by Dr. Knox.

  • Knox, Robert, 1791-1862.
Date:
[between 1800 and 1899?]
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Credit: Case of a congenital disease, or, Malformation of the thigh-bone : illustrating the pathology of interstitial absorption of the cervix femoris / by Dr. Knox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    corresponding lung, by forcing it to occupy a much smaller space ; and, in a word, to render it compa- ratively useless to the individual. I found it diffi- cult to ascertain exactly how long the child had been ailing; the parents affirming that the child had been ill for about five or six weeks only ; but the medical gentleman in attendance assured me, as indeed was proved on further inquiry, that the child had been in a sickly state for more than six months. 1 have said above, that the purulent matter col- lected in the cavity of the pleura had a scrofulous appearance; but, as I should be sorry to mislead any one in estimating the importance of the altera- tion in the form of the femur I am about to de- scribe, candour requires of me to state, that there existed no external marks of scrofula in this child ; such as enlarged head, swollen glands, or cicatrices of old abscesses, or rickety bones; neither did we find, on dissection, any disease whatever in the ab- dominal cavity; such as enlarged mesenteric glands, tubercles of the liver, &c. There was, indeed, a slightly tubercular appearance in the corresponding lung, or that which had suffered by the pressure of the collection of purulent fluid; but, with this excep- tion, there existed no other visible marks of a scro- fulous predisposition. Lastly, it ought perhaps to be mentioned, that one of the medical gentlemen attending the child considered it as certain that there existed a tendency to scrofula in the family. Previous to the examination of the body, which led to the preceding remarks, my attention was at-