Orthopaedia or a practical treatise on the aberrations of the human form / by James Knight.

  • Knight, James, 1810-1887
Date:
1874
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Credit: Orthopaedia or a practical treatise on the aberrations of the human form / by James Knight. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. The attainment of practical information on the subject of aberrations of the human form, and the tendency thereto, is, at the present day, considered by the medical profession, both at home and abroad, to be one of the essential qualifications of a general practitioner. If he does not assume the treatment of this class of ailments, he should, at least, possess such information as would enable him to diagnosticate in its incipiency the patholog- ical condition that would tend to deformity of the person, and thus refer the patient to an experienced orthopaedic surgeon. To the afflicted, this is of inestimable importance, impressing them with confidence in treatment, as well as in the high order of the attainments of their medical adviser. This knowledge is most difficult to attain in an ordinary gen- eral practice, the patients being so sparsely distributed, and insti- tutions for their treatment so limited. As a means of imparting information upon this important branch of medical education, a careful revision of a series of years of successful practice is pre- sented, with a desire that it may be considered, in a limited deg] favorable succedanenm to that of a more practical acquirement, and with the conviction that it is a duty due to each other from all associates in a liberal profession, to impart to the best of their ability such supposed acquirement of knowledge as long-continued labor, under favorable circumstances, would yield to diligent inquiry. Our public and private practice has been most largely devoted in professional service to the relief of crippled children. The first effort at devising surgico-mechanical appliances was made at