St. Georges Hospital Reports Volume 5 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...by inflammation of the left hip-joint, of both ankle-joints, and of the tarsal joints. The swelling and stiffness lasted longer on this than on the previous occasion, and indeed ten months passed before he was able to walk with sticks. Stiffness continued after this time yet for many months, but at length he regained the use of the affected joints. In November 1852 a similar series of events occurred as before. On this occasion, however, both hip-joints became inflamed, as well as both ankle-joints and one kneejoint. The effusion and pain were greater on this than on any previous occasion, and he was longer in recovering. Indeed, he never entirely lost the stiffness about the hips, and had always difficulty in rising from a chair. In 1854 he married. Articular inflammation returned with redoubled violence, without any urethral discharge being present, and attacked in succession every articulation in the body. I found him with ankylosis of all the cervical vertebrae, and of most of the dorsal vertebrae, as well as of both hips. Subsequently, ankylosis took place of the temporomaxillary articulations, the shoulder-joints, and the knees. And before death the entire skeleton was ankylosed: he could not even move his head. B. E. BRODHURST. XII. OBSERVATIONS ON SCARLET FEVER, ESPECIALLY WITH REFERENCE TO ITS EPIDEMIC CHARACTER. SCARLATINA has been for a considerable period unusually prevalent; and it seems to me that something may be gained at the present time from an inquiry into the extent of our knowledge on the subject of its origin and mode of propagation, and the means at our disposal to arrest its spread, or aid in the recovery of those attacked by the disease. As in all other disorders of the same class, the dissemination of scarlet fever obeys certain la...