Congenital dislocation of the hip / by J. Jackson Clarke.

  • Clarke, J. Jackson.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Congenital dislocation of the hip / by J. Jackson Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE It is now fully established that the manipulative method of treatment of congenital dislocation of the hip-joint, when skilfully carried out at a suitable age, results in the cure of nearly 75 per cent, of these previously incurable and usually distressing cases. This is one of the most striking advances in surgery made during the past twenty years. The method is truly surgical, in both the etymological and the scientific sense of the word: being ' hand-work,' it is also sound surgery, in that it leaves the patient per- manently cured without the need of instrumental support. The method is also truly orthopaedic; for Andry, the founder of this branch of surgical pasdiatry, defined the scope of his work as ' the art of preventing and correcting deformity in children.' The following pages present chiefly my personal experience of the method. I have dwelt at some length on certain difficulties and dangers, with the view of enabling others to avoid them Such dangers as there are arise almost entirely from treat- ment being delayed too long. Part of the book has