Diseases of the joints and spine / by Howard Marsh.

  • Frederick Howard Marsh
Date:
1895
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Credit: Diseases of the joints and spine / by Howard Marsh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Diseases of the Joints and Spine. $art DISEASES OF THE JOINTS. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. It is natural for any one interested in the study of diseases of the joints to inquire whether, in the last thirty or forty years, an amount of progress has taken place in this department at all commensurate with that which has been reached in other branches of surgery. I shall endeavour to show that this question admits of a satisfactory answer, by alluding briefly to some of the chief improvements that have been introduced. One important result of such a review, however, will be to emphasise the fact that all surgery is one; that the same general principles are common to every department; that any advance in one part tells on every other part; and that he will best succeed in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the joints who has gained the clearest insight into the laws which I'egulate practice in other sections of the common whole. It was in 1850 that Brodie published the last edition of his book on Diseases of the Joints, a work which B
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