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  • As more and more posters (particularly to the renound hip-joint TPM) express reservations and concerns about the direction this campaign is taking the more I'm just sure that McCain will win.

    Poll: McCain Takes Modest National Lead Over Obama 2009

  • Dislocation inward at the hip-joint is to be reduced in the following manner: (it is a good, proper, and natural mode of reduction, and has something of display in it, if any one takes delight in such ostentatious modes of procedure).

    On The Articulations 2007

  • Some tell a story how the Amazonian women dislocate the joints of their male children while mere infants, some at the knee, and others at the hip-joint, that they may be maimed, and that the male sex may not conspire against the female, and that they use them as artisans to perform any sedentary work, such as that of a shoemaker or brazier.

    On The Articulations 2007

  • Then the limb being extended, either by means of the pestle-like piece of wood (formerly described), or by any of the other methods of extension, the limb which is carried over the step with the piece of wood attached to it, is to be forced downward, while somebody grasps the patient above the hip-joint.

    On The Articulations 2007

  • But being hollow at the flank and the hip-joint, they appear small in stature, and are forced to rest on a staff at the side of the sound leg.

    On The Articulations 2007

  • If the portion of the uterus seated near the hip-joint suppurate, it gets into a state requiring to be treated with tents.

    Aphorisms 2007

  • In persons affected with chronic disease of the hip-joint, if the bone protrude from its socket, the limb becomes wasted and maimed, unless the part be cauterized.

    Aphorisms 2007

  • When, therefore, dislocation takes place inward, the leg appears longer than natural, when compared with the other leg, for two reasons truly; for the bone which articulates with the hip-joint is carried from above down to the ischium where it rises up to the pubes, upon it, then, the head of the femur rests, and the neck of the femur is lodged in the cotyloid foramen (foramen thyroideum?).

    On The Articulations 2007

  • In chronic diseases of the hip-joint, if the bone protrude and return again into its socket, there is mucosity in the place.

    Aphorisms 2007

  • There are four modes of dislocation at the hip-joint: of which modes, dislocation inward takes place most frequently, outward, the most frequently of all the other modes; and it sometimes takes place backward and forward, but seldom.

    On The Articulations 2007

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