 | Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London - Medicine - 1815 - 728 pages
...much as two or three inches lower than the opposite foot; but if the distance be accurately measured from the anterior superior spinous process of the ilium to the patella, no difference is perceptible. The apparent elongation is produced by the position of the pelvis being... | |
 | John A. Orr (F.R.C.S.I.) - Surgery - 1850 - 514 pages
...throw weight and pressure off the affected joint; and this may be ascertained by accurately measuring the distance from the anterior superior spinous process of the ilium to the outer ankle, or to the head of the iibula, if the patient cannot straighten the knee. The other s}... | |
 | Medicine - 1852 - 504 pages
...the thigh, placing the limbs parallel. If it cannot be accomplished in this way, accurate measurement from the anterior superior spinous process of the ilium to the patella, and thence to the sole of the foot under the ankle, will generally decide the question. I regard the... | |
 | Richard Barwell - 1861 - 524 pages
...says, " This appearance is altogether deceptive, and on a careful measurement being made with a tape from the anterior superior spinous process of the ilium to the patella or inner ankle, it is found that there is no elongation in reality. The pelvis is inclined laterally,... | |
 | Sir Benjamin Brodie - Medicine - 1865 - 798 pages
...This appearance is, however, altogether deceptive, and on a careful measurement being made with a tape from the anterior superior spinous process of the ilium to the patella or inner ankle, it is found that there is no elongation in reality. The pelvis is inclined laterally,... | |
 | Samuel Solly - Surgery - 1865 - 698 pages
...of the bone. But the shortening was only imaginary, not real. On measuring the limb with great care, from the anterior superior spinous process of the ilium to the patella, the length of the limb was as nearly equal as possible, though it did not reach the ground ; for the... | |
 | St. Thomas's Hospital (London, England) - 1873 - 386 pages
...measured in the presence of my colleague Mr. Arnott, whom I asked to look at the case with me, and the distance from the anterior superior spinous process of the ilium to the spine of the tibia was found to be greater by nearly half an inch on the left side than on the right.... | |
 | John Hilton - 1877 - 536 pages
...to be about Fig. 85. Fig. 86. half an inch the higher. By carefully measuring with a piece of tape the distance from the anterior superior spinous process of the ilium to the inner ankle of the suspected side, and comparing it with the other, it appeared that they were each... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Howe - 1883 - 440 pages
...the legs in conformity to the straight attitnde, a piece of tape or inelastic cord is made to take the distance from the anterior superior spinous process of the ilium to the patella or external malleolus ; or, what is better, from the symphysis pubis to the internal malleolus of each... | |
 | GEORGE B. SHATTUCK M.D - 1883 - 666 pages
...could be felt on bending the fingers; they were, however, in the highest slate of atrophy. Right leg from the anterior superior spinous process of the ilium to the patella waa twelve inches; from the same to the sole of foot eleven inches (twenty-three inches entire length).... | |
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The distance from the anterior superior spinous process of the ilium to the patella is found, by measurement, to be nearly two inches less on the right side than on the left. 