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HIP-JOINT DISEASE.

(COXALGIA.)

_Hip-joint disease_, also known as Coxalgia, is frequently a scrofulous
affection of the hip-joint. It usually attacks children, but may occur
at any period of life. The causes of this affection are imperfectly
understood, yet all the indications point to a scrofulous state of the
system. Dampness, cold, improper diet, severe injuries from blows or
falls are all numbered among the exciting causes which are conducive to
the establishment of this disease.

THE SYMPTOMS are usually developed gradually; at first there is severe
pain in the knee, but finally it is located in the hip-joint.
Occasionally it is noticed in the hip and knee at the same time. As the
disease progresses, the general health becomes impaired, there is
wasting of the muscles, wakefulness, disturbed sleep, high fever,
profuse and offensive perspiration, the hair falls out, and there is an
inability to move the limb without producing excruciating pain.
Frequently pus will be formed and discharged at different points, and
the limb will become greatly emaciated. Since pain in the knee-joint may
mislead as to the location of the disease, to determine the seat of the
affection, place the patient in a chair and percuss the knee lightly, by
giving it a slight blow with the knuckle; if the hip be affected, the
pain will be readily felt in that joint; if it be simply neuralgia of
the knee-joint, it will excite no pain whatever. If the disease be
allowed to progress and dislocation of the joint takes place, the
affected limb becomes shortened.

TREATMENT. The treatment of this disease should consist in rest for the
hip-joint, cleanliness of the person and plenty of fresh air and light,
a nutritious diet and the use of tonics and sustaining alterative, or
blood-cleansing medicines. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery has,
unaided by other medicines, cured many cases of this disease. This class
of medicines should be persistently employed, in order to obtain their
full effects. It is a disease which progresses slowly and which is not
easily turned from its course, and its fatality should warn the
afflicted to employ the best treatment.

Many poor, unfortunate victims know too well, from sad experience, that
the course of treatment frequently recommended and employed by
physicians and surgeons is ineffectual, and cruel; they deplete the
system, appl