Book Description

Excerpt from The Cincinnati Medical News, Vol. 12: September, 1879 If we peruse our works on medical jurisprudence, we find them teeming with illustrative cases of suits growing out of shortening and deformity from treatment of frac tures. So hazardous have those cases been to surgeons, that our best authors on the subject concede as much as an inch or two shortening in oblique fractures of the long bones, especially of the lower extremities. This is an act of magnanimity on their part for which we feel truly grateful. To be experts in this branch of surgery, we must be correct diagnosticians, and last, not least, render a fitting prognosis. It is certainly better to predict a result com patible with the nature of the case and its surroundings, than to promise a good result when reason and good judgment would insure the reverse. 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.