Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle joints : with their deformities, treated by a new and efficient method / by Hugh Owen Thomas, with an introduction by Rushton Parker.

  • Thomas, Hugh Owen, 1834-1891.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle joints : with their deformities, treated by a new and efficient method / by Hugh Owen Thomas, with an introduction by Rushton Parker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    details involved in a due appreciation of the method as applied to the case of joints, and as applicable to an almost infinite extent to fractures and other injuries of the lower limb, cannot possibly be com- passed in a written account which does not cover far more ground, and perhaps display more numerous illustrations, than this book attempts, and can other- wise only be acquired after prolonged and repeated failure, in the absence of direct practical exposition. Since the appearance of the first edition (which was suggested, written, and published within three months), the opportunities afforded me of testing in every way the author's teaching have so greatly exceeded my anticipations, that instead of merely expressing, as I could then have done, a mere a py^zorz agreement, I can now add practical testimony to every item,! suppose without exception, upon which the author lays any stress. It is unnecessary to go into any detail as to the means we have together adopted in the attempt to work out this subject, further than to say that during this period Mr. Thomas's practice has been open to my constant observation and criticism, that v/e have been intimately associated in the whole argument, and have debated, I might almost say haggled over, every point which either of us has thought of the least practical importance.