On bone-setting : (so called) and its relation to the treatment of joints crippled by injury, rheumatism, inflammation, &c., &c. / by Wharton P. Hood.

  • Hood, Wharton P.
Date:
1871
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    treatment described above—namely, leeching, poulticing, fomenting, strapping and bandaging ; and so effectual and immediate was the relief thence obtained, that I did not find it necessary to remain in the house even one entire day, but visited my patients as usual—sparing my foot, of course, as much as I conveniently could. At the end of five days I was again able to wear a Wellington boot. I continued wearing the bandage longer than I had done on the previous occasion, because the swelling and want of tone about the parts were greater, probably on account of the previous injury the joint had sustained. Since then I have never felt any diminution in strength,' or pain in the joint, being only from time to time reminded of my accident by slight itching of the skin at the part where the leeches were applied. The principles of the practice here recom- mended as appropriate, in the case of sprains of the ankle-joint, I need hardly say are equally applicable in the treatment of sprains of other joints of the body.