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

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    usual manipulations were employed for their re- duction. It required three operations, at intervals of a week, before the stiffness of the foot was removed, but at the end of the three weeks he walked as well as he ever did in his life. When he first came he had his foot in a sling suspended from his neck, so utterly useless was the limb. The advantage of the employment of movement a few days after the receipt of injury is well shown by the history of one of the cases that I saw with Mr. Hutton :— L F. (Stanmore) was thrown from a cart by the horse stumbling when going down hill. He fell on his right shoulder, and side of his head. He remained stunned for about an hour ; on coming to himself and trying to rise with the assistance of the right arm, he found himself unable to raise it, much less to bear any weight upon it. He succeeded with great difficulty in getting into his cart (the horse, it appears, did not fall completely, and waited quietly at the side of the road) and driving home. He suffered great pain all night, the arm being perfectly