A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints / by Sir Astley Cooper.

  • Astley Cooper
Date:
MDCCCXXXI [1831]
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Credit: A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints / by Sir Astley Cooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    has no more bones to set; for I will expose his ignorance in that part of the country in which I live.—He was a man of malevolent disposition, and carried his threat into execution, to the great injury of the surgeon, who was also frequently reminded of his want of skill, by meeting his former patient in his rounds; and, what was worse, by hearing the following observation frequently repeated: Mr. is a good apothecary, but he knows nothing of surgery. In a dislocation of the os femoris, which still remains unreduced, a consultation was held upon the nature of the injury, and after a long consideration, a report was made by one of the surgeons to this effect: Well, Sir, thank God, we are all agreed that there is no dislocation.'* Knowledge ^ cousidcrablc share of anatomical knowledge is required to of anatomy c» x necessary, ^q^^qq^ uaturo of thcsc accidcuts, as well as to suggest the proper means of reduction; and it is much to be lamented, that students neglect to inform themselves sufficiently of the structure of the joints. They often dissect the muscles of a limb with great neatness and minuteness, and then throw it away, without any examination of the ligaments, cartilages, or ends of the bones; a knowledge of which, in a surgical point of view, is of infinitely greater importance; and from such negligence arise the errors into which those novices fall when they embark in the practice of their profession ; for the dislocations of the hip, the elbow, and the shoulder, are scarcely to be detected, but by those who possess accurate anatomical information. Even our hospital surgeons, who have neglected their anatomy, mistake these accidents; and I have known the pullies applied to an hospital patient, in a case of
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