Septic arthritis : the Bradshaw Lecture delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on December 10, 1903 / by Howard Marsh.

  • Marsh, Howard, 1839-1915.
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1903
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    mew's Hospital the limb was slightly flexed. The hip was stiff and there was much brawny oedema of the soft parts in Scarpa's triangle and in the iliac fossa, and below and a little internal to the iliac spine there was a suspicion of fluctuation. The inguinal glands were enlarged and the muscles were wasted. The position of the limb was cor- rected by weight extension. The brawny thicken- ing persisted for several months, and suppura- tion often appeared imminent. At the present time the joint is stiff; there is no pain. Some thickening still remains around the joint. The patient walks with only slight lameness. EEYSIPELAS. Arthritis as a complication of erysipelas ap- pears to have been first recorded by William Musgrave ^ in 1702, and Boissier de Sauvage mentioned it in 1740. But the arthritis in ques- tion was believed to be acute rheumatism, and was by some later writers termed erysipelatous pseudo-rheumatism. An important contribution to this subject consists of a thesis written by Dr. Eene Jorrot, pubHshed in 1899.' Dr. Jorrot has collected from various sources a number of cases which ^ De Arthride Symptomatica. Thesis, before Fac. of Med. and Pharmacol, of Lyons, November 1899.