Rupture of the Internal Semilunar Cartilage of the Knee-Joint

I venture to think the following notes of a case of injury to the knee-joint may prove interesting enough to be worth placing on record. It is not always we have an opportunity of inspecting the actual condition of an injured joint when the history of the case was so well known during life in the less important lion-fatal injuries. No. 1858, Private W. P., 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade, was admitted to the Station Hospital, Bareilly, on 25th December 1891, suffering from au attack of acute dysentery. The disease ran a rapid and fatal course, and he died the third day after admission. From patient's medical history sheet, it was ascertained that he enlisted in 1886, and that he was a temperate man of good character. About a year ago he had been brought before a Medical Board to be invalided to England on account of a loose body iii his right knee-joint. As this loose body could not be felt from outside, the disability depended solely on the statement of the patient. The President of the Board decided that lie should be returned to duty, iiud ordered to wear a knee-cap. The history of the accident which caused the injury is, that in August 1889, lie slipped down a bank when he states he felt a " bone come out" in his right knee. It gave him