Observations on injuries of joints and their treatment / by Rutherford Alcock.

  • Rutherford Alcock
Date:
1840
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    ON INJURIES OF JOINTS, AND THEIR TREATMENT. By RUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Esq., K.C.T.. &c. LATE DEPUTY INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF HOSPITALS WITH THE AUXILIARY FORCES OF PORTUGAL AND SPAIN; AND LECTURER ON SURGERY. READ APRIL 28TH, 1840. FIRST PART. Among the complicated injuries which have come under my care, in great numbers, during the last ten years, cases in which the articulations are implicated in the first instance, or subsequently to the receipt of a wound or injury, by the extension of diseased action, have attracted much of my attention and careful consideration. It always seemed to me, that this important class of cases had met with much less attention, particularly from surgeons in civil prac¬ tice, than they merited, by their complicated cha¬ racter, and the frequency of fatal results, both as regarded the life and the limb of the patient. b 2
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