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Show Plate 1. EXPLANATION /5 '. " /, {IA/MN L4 \ V THE PLATES. i .»- culating cartilage is destroyed, and the face of the bone ulcerated, in consequence of white swelling ofthe knee joint ; the capsular ligament is in part destroyed by ulceration. A, The face of'the bone, rough and carious. B B B, Small portions of the articulating cartilage remaining, the rest w l. being destroyed by ulceration. (1, Part ot'the capsule suspended. .i‘ D, Ulccrated holes in the capsule, by which sinuses running round the bones in the outside communicated with the cavity of the knee joint. {T ‘V [C l. 3.. FE G. 17. This represents the thigh bone, with the head fixed and anchylos. ed in the acetuhulum ischii. It is one of those cases of diseased hipjoint, where the inflammation subsided in consequence of the granulation and ex- ostosis ot'the bone interrupting the motions ot‘thejoint. A, Dorsnm ofthe ilium. _--..: Mum FIGURE 1. This figure represents the lower head of the femur, with the capsule ot‘the knee joint; the bone is suspended by the capsule; the arti- B, 'I‘uherosity of the ischium. C, Femur. D, The neck of the femur. ‘1, The margin of the acetabulum. It may he observed, that the margin of the aeetabulum is contracted and eked out, so as to enclose the head of the femur ; and even in the maceratcd state of the bones, though they are loose, they will not separate. F, The lesser trochanter, which has approached the pelvis so closely, whilst a granulation, has formed upon the pelvis, that the two surfaces meet. mg have formed a connexion, by means of a ligament which checks the motion of the thigh. "fill/[nil ‘ 'QDUW PLATE I. r. "firm/"F '5'" -'- watt-'0 . ...'¢3.<_, ,‘ *., ...-,-... -\1>-‘.-v.w a . . \- 3 ‘4 my. 415x- OF |