Notes on the modern treatment of fractures . nce of the author. Hamiltons Treatise on Fractures isso full of these complicated splints and devices that the youngpractitioner is hopelessly lost in selecting a method for treatinga fracture under his immediate care. Individuals, as well asraces, are born with mental characteristics which drive themto invent and advocate complicated methods in all the pur-suits of life. The English and German surgeons perhapsillustrate this tendency to an extreme degree. Some Ameri-can surgeons, partly from individual traits and partly fromoverdeveloped imitative
Notes on the modern treatment of fractures . nce of the author. Hamiltons Treatise on Fractures isso full of these complicated splints and devices that the youngpractitioner is hopelessly lost in selecting a method for treatinga fracture under his immediate care. Individuals, as well asraces, are born with mental characteristics which drive themto invent and advocate complicated methods in all the pur-suits of life. The English and German surgeons perhapsillustrate this tendency to an extreme degree. Some Ameri-can surgeons, partly from individual traits and partly fromoverdeveloped imitative faculties, are led in the same direc-tion. A truly Avonderful illustration of this perversion of the :- - :- : ??:-. 1 iz. 1 ;-?; - j~ 1~ v :. Zr^izzL^ I - - : :. ... .- : in proof of bit statement. ConH anything be more prepos-:<:ci -- •..-?. :~ ~11:1 : ; :?:_- —1:1 n. ins is here treated. He isill:-- :-:--- ~i 1. 1-1 —1:1 7 :-z.\ -:1^ :~.::1^- v \ . ::. r. 1 -. - .:. - _ .:-_f-_l :: ^li^: —1:1 :~ :sl~ztj. ~ 11:1 ::1-narOy needs seareely any splint, is a travesty of modemsmgery. That even an Amwrikpain can accept such cffimpfi- eated dressing is shown by a risk to the waids of some of ourhuge metropolitan hospital I recently saw in a hospital ina neighboring city a patient with fracture of the thigh. The SIMPLICITY IN THE TREATMENT OF FRACTURES. 37 dressing was a Physicks long splint, combined with the ex-tension apparatus of Buck and, I think, a plaster of Parisencasement: that is, this afflicted patient had about as muchapparatus applied for his single fracture as would be requiredfor the treatment of three patients with a similar one of the appliances would be sufficient for an ordinaryfracture of the femur. Physicians coming to Philadelphia are, I think, often sur-prised at the simplicity of the dressings used in some of ourhospitals. It is certainly gratifying to know that we do workin a less complic
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