Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle joints and their treatment by a new and efficient method . GHAPTEE I. HIP JOINT APPARATUS. MURING the last twenty years, various designs in wood, iron, wire gauze, leather, gutta percha,gypsum, silicate of potash, solutions of shellac, plaster of Paris, and combinations of these, havebeen used in the treatment of hip joint have used very many of these in practice duringmy early career, and have well considered everyknown model and design in use in Europe andAmerica, and I trust it will not be deemed pre-sumptuous if I point out what I consider to
Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle joints and their treatment by a new and efficient method . GHAPTEE I. HIP JOINT APPARATUS. MURING the last twenty years, various designs in wood, iron, wire gauze, leather, gutta percha,gypsum, silicate of potash, solutions of shellac, plaster of Paris, and combinations of these, havebeen used in the treatment of hip joint have used very many of these in practice duringmy early career, and have well considered everyknown model and design in use in Europe andAmerica, and I trust it will not be deemed pre-sumptuous if I point out what I consider to bethe merits and demerits of these various appli-ances ; many of them having been constructed at the suggestion of gentlemen well qualifiedto do so. In France, Bonnet seems to have been thedesigner of the favourite appliance ; but in vol. his work on diseases of the articulations, page327, he does not report well of it; and on re-ferring to the Atlas accompanying his work, Inotice that the pelvic portion of this machine isdefective in restraining the movements of the hipjoint. Yet the
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