Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ...of soda or ammonia and phosphate of lime (tophaceous matter) secreted within and around the articulation. This crepitation is a sure indication of imminent complete ankylosis. The articulations of the fingers are equally liable to ankylosis from the causes here mentioned, and the deformity produced in them by gout is very considerable. Occasionally the cretaceous matter is so abundant, that the superincumbent skin yields to the pressure exercised from within outwardly, is slowly removed by absorption, rarely with ulceration. By these means the cretaceous matter is thrown out, constituting "chalk stones." The interior of the articulation may then communicate with the external atmosphere; but in consequence of the changes previously effected in the synovial membrane, the usual destructive results of exposure of the interior of an articulation do not occur. Treatment.--If the ankylosis have arisen from accident or phlegmonous inflammation, or if the cause have been struma, the case being complicated by the cicatrices of fistulas in different situations among the carpal bones, and complete immobility exist, it may be considered incurable. But in several cases of incipient calcareous adhesion of the articular surfaces from "rheumatic gout," or where sufficient tophaceous matter has been secreted around the articulation, so as firmly to encase it, all appearance of inflammation having subsided, I have been enabled, even where complete immobility existed, to restore the functions of the part. Frictions, manipulations, baths, the internal administration of iodide of potassium, and attention to the functions of the liver and kidneys, have been the remedies employed. These cases have proved to me the possibility of absorption of...

Excerpt from On Ankylosis, or Stiff-Joint: A Practical Treatise on the Contractions and Deformities Resulting From Diseases of Joints The Author has few reasons to assign for the publication of the following pages. The treatment of ankylosis, or stiff-joint, by the Stromeyerian method, -subcutaneous division of tendons and subsequent gradual straightening, - may appear to many readers to want the charm of novelty. But, although the method in question has now been frequently practised in this country, and occasionally a successful case has been announced in the medical periodicals, no complete exposition of the forms of ankylosis in which it is especially useful, or the details necessary for enabling the competent practitioner successfully to apply it, has been hitherto published. The pathology of ankylosis in reference to the complications affecting the curability, the production of semiluxation previously to occurrence of ankylosis, and the mode in which muscular contraction arises, will be found to have engaged the Authors attention as a preliminary to the practical portion of the Treatise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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