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Title: The Richmond and Louisville medical journal
Year: 1878 (1870s)
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Subjects: Medicine Medicine
Publisher: Louisville, Ky. : E.S. Gaillard
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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MORBUS COXAEIUS. 551 after-treatment, I never having seen the patient after theoperation for two years, and the gentleman who had it in chargehaving had no experience in the treatment of this class of cases.All the other patients that recovered have more or less goodmotion, and infinitely less deformity than those which haverecovered by natures process. Fig. 17. Fig. 18.
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If the surgeon has not the opportunity of obtaining the wirecuirass, the after-treatment can be carried out just as success-fully by applying extension and counter-extension while thepatient is in bed. But, of course, the patient loses the advan-tages of out-door exercise and fresh air, which in many instanceswill be found to be of vital importance. From the foregoing observations, I am led to the followingconclusions: I. That morbus coxarius is a disease most frequently metwith in early childhood, or the age of reckless indifference. II. That it is almost always of traumatic origin, and notnecessarily connected with a vitiated constitution. III. That rest and freedom from pressure of the parts in- 552 MORBUS COXABIUS. volved, while at the same time the rest of the body is allowedfree exercise in the open air and a nutritious diet, is the besttreatment that has yet been discovered for this disease. IV. That if this plan of treatment is adopted in the earlystages of this disease, the m

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