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Hip Joint (DISEASES OF THE a disease)

DISEASES OF THE, a disease differing in many important points from other joint-diseases. Its connection with scrofula is more distinctly marked than that of most other joint diseases, and it almost always occurs before the age of puberty. It comes on, in children or young persons of a scrofulous constitution, from very slight causes; thus, it is often traced to over-exertion in a long walk, a sprain in jumping, or a fall; and in many cases no apparent cause can be assigned. In the early stage of the disease the whole of the structures of the joint are inflamed, and by proper treatment at this HIPPOBOSCIDE period the morbid action may be sometimes subdued without any worse consequences than a more or less rigid joint. As the disease advances abscesses occur around the joint. True shortening of the limb now takes place, which at the same time becomes adducted and inverted. From this stage, if the health is pretty good, and the lungs are sound, the patient may be so fortunate as to recover with an anchylosed (or immovable) hip joint; but the probability is that exhaustion and hectic will come on, and that death will supervene.

HIPPARCHUS (-pärkus), tyrant of Athens. He was son of PISISTRATUS and brother of HIPPIAS, with whom he reigned 527-514. While conducting in Athens a solemn procession to the Temple of Minerva, he was slain by HARMO- DIUS and ARISTOGEITON, 514 B. C.