Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10307
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Head of the femur.
Date
1837
Creator
J Perry, Engraver
After
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X54/3
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 261mm
width (print): 206mm
width (print): 206mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Colour illustration showing two views of the head of the femur. The top image shows the attached ligament and the bottom image provides a cross-section view.
Plate 2 from Diseases of the Hip-Joint by William Coulson (London, Thomas Hurst, 1837). Inscription: ‘Plate. 2, C. I. Canton del, J. Perry lithog.’
Plate 2 from Diseases of the Hip-Joint by William Coulson (London, Thomas Hurst, 1837). Inscription: ‘Plate. 2, C. I. Canton del, J. Perry lithog.’
Object history
In 1830 William Coulson became the consulting surgeon to the City of London Lying-in Hospital. Here his investigations on puerperal affections of the joints at the lying-in hospital did much to improve the knowledge of their nature and pathology. They were subsequently published in the second edition of his work, Diseases of the Hip Joint (1841)- this particular entry is from the first edition.
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