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Excerpt from American Practice of Surgery, Vol. 4 of 8: A Complete System of the Science and Art of Surgery, by Representative Surgeons of the United States and Canada A dislocation is commonly defined as a permanent displacement of the articular ends of the bones forming a joint. Most writers insist upon the word permanent in the definition, in order to distinguish between the displace ments which persist and those which are but momentary, classifying the latter injuries as sprains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.