An account of a new method of treating diseases of the joints of the knee and elbow, in a letter to Mr. Percival Pott / by H. Park.

  • Park, H. (Henry), 1745-1831.
Date:
MDCCXXXIII [i.e. 1783]
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Credit: An account of a new method of treating diseases of the joints of the knee and elbow, in a letter to Mr. Percival Pott / by H. Park. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ( >3 ) furfaces of bare bone are oppofed to each other, they have ever a tendency to unite 3 and as we fee nature fo often effeft this in thefe very articulations, under all the difad- vantages of a difeafed Hate of parts, furely there could be little reafon to doubt that fhe would do, at lead:, as much when all difeafe was removed, and two perfeftly healthy fur- faces of bone were attempted to be united. With relpeft to the lofs of the infertions of the Extenfor Mufcles, it was fufficient tai reply, that the joint being extirpated, there was no longer any want of mufcles to move it; and that the incifed ends of thefe mufcles, as there would not be any part of them taken away, mud: unavoidably attach themfelves to fome part of the Callus 5 which was all that would be necedary. The queftion concerning the utility of the limb, provided a cure could be obtained, was; indeed, a very important one, and deferved well