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become elongated, again assumed its normal shape, 

 the carious masses were expelled, the various chan- 

 nels of suppuration were stopped, and the danger of 

 a fatal consumptive fever was averted. If our aid 

 is not sought until the head of the femor is destroyed, 

 and the hone has completely slipt out of its socket, it is 

 impossible to prevent shortening and stiffness of the 

 limb. Another splendid triumph over a dreadful 

 source of danger and disease I 



WHITE SWELLING OF THE KNEE 



Is very similar to this affection of the hip-joint. 

 Here too we observe the same insidious inflam- 

 matory beginning, the same irresistible tendency to 

 ichorous suppuration and disorganization of the 

 constituent parts of the joint, the same tendency to 

 destroy the organism by gradual exhausting fever. 

 We have unmistakeable proofs of the presence of a 

 poisonous process pervading the whole organism. 

 He who has had frequent opportunities of observing 

 this disease, knows perfectly in what mysterious 

 obscurity it is still enveloped, and how specifically 

 different this affection of the knee sometimes ap- 

 pears to us from the hip disease. The homoeopathic 

 law teaches us more positively than any thing else 

 could do, that every case of disease should be 

 viewed as something specifically distinct from other 

 cases, and should be treated with medicines that 

 are specifically adapted to it. An experience of 

 many years has taught me that iodine is the best 



