The practice of surgery . [Fig. 131. Plan of Mr. Fergussons Operation; theblack lines representing the incisions.] [Fig. 132. Appearance of the Scapula and Acromialend of the Clavicle of Mr. Fergussons patient.—Ed.] RESECTION OF TIIE ELBOW-JOINT. 307 operation is described in his Practical Surgery (Am. Ed. 1853); andis illustrated by the accompanying drawings. (Figs. 131, 132.)—Ed. [See Chelius, vol. iii.; Fergussons Practical Surgery; McClellans Principles of Sur-gery; American Journal, vol. xxi. 1837.—Ed.] Resection of the Elboiv-Joint. Few affections are more common than articular disease a
The practice of surgery . [Fig. 131. Plan of Mr. Fergussons Operation; theblack lines representing the incisions.] [Fig. 132. Appearance of the Scapula and Acromialend of the Clavicle of Mr. Fergussons patient.—Ed.] RESECTION OF TIIE ELBOW-JOINT. 307 operation is described in his Practical Surgery (Am. Ed. 1853); andis illustrated by the accompanying drawings. (Figs. 131, 132.)—Ed. [See Chelius, vol. iii.; Fergussons Practical Surgery; McClellans Principles of Sur-gery; American Journal, vol. xxi. 1837.—Ed.] Resection of the Elboiv-Joint. Few affections are more common than articular disease at the elbow;and, not unfrequently, it advances to disorganization, with or withoutstrumous complication. To this joint, more than any other, the opera-tion of resection is applicable. Care being always taken to select thecase according to the ordinary tests (Principles, 3d Am. Ed. p. 502),lest, resection failing, amputation become necessary, and we discover,when too late, that the patient, who could have stood one o
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