The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . irely successful,the patient surviving many years, and being able to [»erform alltlie motionsof the joint, which was as flexible as if nothing had ever been operation was repeated by Tyre, of Gloucester, likewise in a case ofcompound luxation, and with equal success, some twenty-five or thirty yearsafterwards; and about the same time, or a little earlier, Justamond success-fully removed the olecranon and upper part of the ulna, in a case of caries.*But the first complete excisio
The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . irely successful,the patient surviving many years, and being able to [»erform alltlie motionsof the joint, which was as flexible as if nothing had ever been operation was repeated by Tyre, of Gloucester, likewise in a case ofcompound luxation, and with equal success, some twenty-five or thirty yearsafterwards; and about the same time, or a little earlier, Justamond success-fully removed the olecranon and upper part of the ulna, in a case of caries.*But the first complete excision of the elbow-joint was performed by theelder Moreau, in 1794. The case was one of chronic joint-disease, and thepatient recovered with a useful limb in the course of seven months. Thefirst surgeon to introiluce elbow-joint excision into military practice was thecelebrated Percy, and the first case in American military surgery was that ofDr. Otis Hoyt, during the Mexican War, in 1847. The*^ first American ope-ration in civil practice was performed by Dr. John C. Warren, of Boston, iu1834. Fig. 0^^ ^iii^iiiiMiiiiiii^iiii**^ Excision of elbow joint by H-shaped Incision. Various incisions have been recommended for excision of the elbow, manysurgeons, including Mr. Butcher, of Dublin, and the late Prof. Syme, of Edin-burgh, preferring an H-shaped wound, as shown in Fig. 700, while others • In my Principles and Practice of Surjiery (third edit. p. 627), I have, foHowinf; , given the date of .Tnstamonds case as 1775 ; but in Parks second letter, dated Novem-ber 5, 1780, he speaks of this operation aa having been performed since the publication of hiafirst letter, which was iu 1783. 470 EXCISIONS AND RESECTIONS. dispense with one of tlic longitudinal branches, thus reducing the incision tothe f()i-ni ol a J— ^^^^ oponition originally suggested by Iark, liowcver—asiuifle longitudinal incision over the posterior, inner surface of the joint—affords abundant room
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