Excerpt from Orthopaedic Surgery of Injuries, Vol. 1 There is - or Should be - no Sharply defined demarcation between general and orthopaedic surgery. The general surgeon must have a knowledge of orthopaedic surgery in order that the best possible after-results of his operative procedures may be obtained. The whole subject is, from both the national and military points of View, increasing in importance every day, and the necessity for a further Scientific knowledge regarding the many problems which have arisen and will still arise is in creasingly felt. During the last four years Sir Robert Jones has devoted his skill and knowledge to the service of the army, and in publishing this book'he has added one more to the list of valuable services for which we are already indebted to him. 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.