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Title: Pediatrics.
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Pediatrics Children Infants Pediatrics Disease Disease
Publisher: New York : Van Publishing
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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PEDIATRICS. side, for the purpose of relieving the inflamed sacro-iliac jointfrom pressure. You will usually notice atrophy of the buttockon the affected side, and occasionally some slight lowering ofthe gluteo-femoral crease, but the characteristic point of thedeformity is the relation of the trunk to the pelvis. On exam-ination of the patient, you will find that the movements of thefemur in the acetabulum are unrestricted, and there is not thepain on pressure behind the trochanter and between the tro-chanter and the crease of the ilium, which is usual in hip-jointdisease, but that if pressure is made over the line of junctionbetween the ilium and the sacrum, pain will be elicited ; thatif the two iliac bones are firmly pressed together, withoutcrowding the head of the femur into the acetabulum, pain willbe caused, which is not the case in disease of a hip-joint. I have noticed in foreign literature several cases describedas obstinate sciatica, with pictures presenting exactly thecon

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