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Page 39 - ... This result, however, is not uniform. Occasionally in the polyarticular variety, initiated with a chill, we have ankylosis of many of the larger joints, as the hip, knee, ankle, etc., and less frequently some of the small joints. Both of these varieties are, we believe, cryptogenetic infections, and in the great majority of cases we have been able to demonstrate the primary atrium of infection. The synovitis resulting from these infections in joints may be classified as follows: (a) simple, serous...
Page 29 - In 1879, during my interneship in the Cook County Hospital, a patient was admitted with a compound posterior dislocation of both knee-joints. The internal condyle had been driven out through the skin behind. The openings were only buttonhole in size, and there was no fracture. This occurred in the pre-antiseptic period. The following day the patient had a chill, followed by a temperature of 104 F., great swelling of the joints and a seropurulent discharge from the opening. The high temperature continued,...
Page 117 - It was moved and seconded and carried that the chair appoint a committee of three to take up the subject of railway sanitation with reference to making conditions better, and report at the next meeting of the association.
Page 36 - It is my conviction that every type of non-traumatic joint inflammation is a metastatic manifestation of a primary infection in some other portion of the body. It is my further conviction that there is no idiopathic rheumatic arthritis any more than there is an idiopathic peritonitis.
Page 102 - It might be well here to say a word as to the status of the 'medical examiner' and the 'company's surgeon' in order that these officers may not be confused. "The medical examiner is a regularly employed and salaried medical graduate who is required to devote his entire time to the service of the company and the relief department.
Page 87 - The entire surface should then be mopped with dry gauze. Then apply strips of gauze which have been previously soaked in a 2 per cent, solution of picric acid in dilute alcohol. Over this apply a thin layer of cotton and hold in place with adhesive strips or a roller 'bandage. This dressing may remain until it is soiled, at which time remove all soiled or wet dressings, clean with hydrogen peroxide, mop dry, and re-apply fresh gauze soaked in the picric acid solution.
Page 15 - I shall take the upper or lower end of the tibia with its epiphysis and transplant it, because I feel that in young individuals it should become osteogenetic. If the entire shaft of the tibia, humerus, radius or ulna be absent, then the bone must contact with the neighboring bone laterally or at one or the other end o>f the extremity across the normal line of the joint in order to get its osteogenetic supply. Subsequently, an arthroplastic joint can be made at the desired position. B. The repair...
Page 12 - ... produces a permanent bone deposit. II. Periosteal strips elevated at one end from the bone and attached at the other, if turned out into muscle or fat, reproduce regularly bone on their under surface for a greater portion of their entire length. III. Transplanted into other individuals or animals of same species and contacting at one end with exposed or freshened bone it rarely produces permanent bone, even for a small extent at its basal attachment, and never produces bone for its full length....
Page 118 - DR. WH MARCY Buffalo, NY Corresponding Secretary, DR. GEORGE CHAFFEE, 338 Forty-seventh street, Brooklyn, NY Recording Secretary, DR. JH REID Troy, NY Treasurer, DR. JK STOCKWELL Oswego, NY EX-PRESIDENTS. Dr. Geo. Chaffee, Founder 1891-3. Dr. M. Cavana 1894 *Dr. CJG Finn 1904 Dr. RS Harnden 1895 Dr. GP Conn 1905 *Dr. CS Parkhill 1896 Dr. JP Creveling 1906 *Dr. JF Valentine 1897 Dr. HT Dana 1907 Dr.
Page 97 - Car Sanitation. To the Section on Railway Surgery of the Medico-Legal Society of New York: Gentlemen:— The standing committee authorized at the November, 1895, meeting— joint session— to report on the question of car sanitation, and especially on the transportation of people sick or afflicted with infectious or contagious diseases, submit the following report: Transportation of the...