Dear Journal:— My little daughter when three years of age injured her left knee, and was a great sufferer at intervals with it, up to the age of seven years. At this time she became helpless.
The doctors then decided to put the limb into an iron brace, and that failing to benefit her, she was obliged to lie in bed for three months; at intervals, as she could endure it, they required a pail of sand to be attached to her foot as a weight, in order to straighten the limb, which had become much drawn; this was done preparatory to an operation upon the knee.
I had consulted nine physicians since the injury, some of the best in the east and on this coast; four came in for consultation at last, and pronounced it tuberculosis, and informed me it meant an operation, and nine chances out of ten the limb must be amputated above the knee. It was twice the size of the other above the knee, and below the knee was quite small and shrivelled, and was shorter than the other.
