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    Image number: RS.10310
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    Lateral view of anchylosis of the right femur with the hip bone

    Date
    1837
    Creator
    J Perry, Engraver
    After
    G Hallmandel, Lithographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    Tracts/X54/3
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 262mm
    width (print): 212mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Illustration showing anchylosis of the right femur and the hip bone.

    This example was taken from a patient who developed anchylosis aged 64; he lived some years longer. Anchylosis is an abnormal adhesion or rigidity of the bones in a joint.

    Plate 5 from Diseases of the Hip-Joint by William Coulson (London, Thomas Hurst, 1837). Inscription: ‘Plate. V, J. Perry del et lith. Printed by G. Hallmandel.’
    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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