Diseases of the Hip, Knee, and Ankle JointsNorman Publishing, 1991 - 283 หน้า This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878. Excerpt: ... A REVIEW OF THE PAST AND PRESENT TREATMENT OF INFLAMED JOINTS. "The other method whereby, in my opinion, the art of medicine may be advanced, turns chiefly upon what follows, viz., that there must be some fixed, definite, and consummate Mf.thodus Medendi, of which the commonweal may have the advantage. By FIXED, DEFINITE, and CONSUmmATE, I mean a line of practice which has been based and built upon a sufficient number of experiments, and has in that manner been proved competent to the cure of this or that disease. I by no means am satisfied with the record of a few successful operations, either of the doctor or the drug. I require that they be shown to succeed universally, or at least under such and such circumstances. For I contend that we ought to be equally sure of overcoming such and such diseases by satisfying such and such intentions, as we are of satisfying those same intentions by the application of such and such sorts of remedies; a matter in which we generally (although not, perhaps, always) can succeed. To speak in the way of illustration, we attain our ends when we produce stools by senna, or sleep by opium. I am far from denying that a physician ought to attend diligently to particular cases in respect to the results both of the method and of the remedies which he employs in the cure of disease. I grant, too, that he may lay up his experiences for use, both in the way of easing his memory and of seizing suggestions. By so doing he may gradually increase in medical skill, so that eventually, by a long continuance and a frequent repetition of his experiments, he may lay down and prescribe for himself a METHOdUS Medendi, from which, in the cure of this or that disease, he need not deviate a single straw's breadth. Nevertheless, the publication o... |
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PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION | |
CHAPTER I | 1 |
CHAPTER III | 27 |
CHAPTER IV | 87 |
A REVIEW OF THE PAST AND PRESENT TREATMENT | 197 |
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abscess acetabulum action acute advised anchylosis ankle joint ankylosis apparatus appears applied arrest articular inflammation articulation aspiration bandage Bauer Blood Blister bone bonesetter chronic inflammation condition consulted continued correct crutches cure defect diagnosis distension efficient effusion excision exsection extension femur fixation fixed flexed flexion fluid foot fracture frequently friction hip appliance hip joint Hugh Owen Thomas immobility inches incision inflamed joint injurious instrument iodine irritation knee appliance knee joint lecture Liverpool manipulation mechanical treatment ment months muscles muscular noticed observation open method operation opinion Orthopedic Orthopedic Surgery orthopraxy pain passive motion patient patten pelvis period plate portion posterior practice present pressure principles prolonged recovered recovery reduction of deformity relieved remedy resolution rest result Sayre Sayre's shortening sound limb spine splint stage stiffness suffering suppuration surgeon surgery surgical symptoms synovial membrane Taylor tenotomy theory thigh tibia tion treated treatment of joint upright usually weeks weight and pulley wound