A Case of Excision of the Knee-Joint: And of Urethrotomy for Impacted Calculus: Recovery

Ajodhya, a Hindu lad, aged 1-1 years, born at Dhampore, was admitted into the Srinagar Dispensary on the 29th of November. 1879. He was weak and emaciated. The right knee was hard, considerably swollen and tender to touch. The leg was slightly flexed on the thigh, and the motion of the joint very limited. There was an opening close to the anterior tubercle of the tibia, leading right into the joint. Suppuration was rather profuse. Fever came on almost every night, and there was constant pain in the joint. The commencement of the disease dated as far back as the middle of the year 1878. He was under the treatment of a jorah at Najibabad, but, the disease gradually increasing, he