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Excerpt from On Ankylosis, or Stiff-Joint: A Practical Treatise on the Contractions and Deformities Resulting From Diseases of Joints The Author has few reasons to assign for the publication of the following pages. The treatment of ankylosis, or stiff-joint, by the Stromeyerian method, -subcutaneous division of tendons and subsequent gradual straightening, - may appear to many readers to want the charm of novelty. But, although the method in question has now been frequently practised in this country, and occasionally a successful case has been announced in the medical periodicals, no complete exposition of the forms of ankylosis in which it is especially useful, or the details necessary for enabling the competent practitioner successfully to apply it, has been hitherto published. The pathology of ankylosis in reference to the complications affecting the curability, the production of semiluxation previously to occurrence of ankylosis, and the mode in which muscular contraction arises, will be found to have engaged the Authors attention as a preliminary to the practical portion of the Treatise. 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.