Excerpt from Orthopaedic Surgery for Students and General Practitioners: Preliminary Considerations and Diseases of the Spine; 114 Original Illustrations Orthopaedic surgery as a specialty separated from general surgery is of comparatively recent date in America, for its first chair dates from 1861, when the elder Sayre filled it at Bellevue Medical College. Now forty-five of our American medical schools announce special instruction in this branch, showing the widespread recognition of its importance and but few state board examinations omit questions on this subject. From the earliest times, however, descriptions and methods of treatment of deformity have been found in surgical litera ture. 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.