Post-graduate lectures on the surgical treatment of deformities / by William Adams.

  • Adams, William
Date:
1893
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Credit: Post-graduate lectures on the surgical treatment of deformities / by William Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. VII—Massage often Combined with Passive Movements and Galvanism. I need hardly say that this treatment now holds a high position, owing to the influence of many well- known authorities who have devoted their attention to these subjects, and to no one are we more indebted than to our friend Dr. J. Fletcher Little, the able secretary of this Post-Graduate Course. Through Dr. Little's teaching a sound and reliable knowledge of these subjects is rapidly becoming more generally known. In cases of infantile paralysis and of muscular wasting I am constantly seeing great advantages from this method of treatment; generally massage and gal- vanism in combination, and frequently also with the addition of passive movements. Now, Gentlemen, I have brought before you seven well recognised principles in surgery which are especi- ally applicable to the treatment of contractions and deformities, and in so doing have alluded to the serious consequences which may result when these well-estab- lished fixed principles are departed from by those who run after novelty. Each principle, with its history and illustrations, might well form the subject of a separate lecture in a course of orthopaedic lectures, but to-day I have endeavoured to sketch the general principles in outline, and mention the cases to which each principle is especi- ally applicable, and in this general survey I trust that some of you will find the materials for extending the work. D
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