Excerpt from The Dublin Journal of Medical Science, Vol. 131: January to June, 1911 Yet it should be possible to trace the surgery of frac tures to the fountain head, for a bone once broken forms a permanent index from which can be gauged the ability of the surgeon or the healing powers Of nature, and there is no lack Of specimens from the earliest times to enable such a study to be made. An example of the primitive state of the surgery of the bones is furnished in the works of Sir Astley Cooper as late as 1828. The directions for reducing a dorsal dislocation Of the hip are as follows: - Free venesection is at first resorted to, then the patient is placed In a bath at a temperature of the heat Of the water being gradually increased until the patient faints. While he is in the water he is given a grain of tartarised antimony every ten minutes until nausea is excited. He is then taken out of the bath, put on a hard mattress, and the bone put back in its socket. Crude as this treatment appears it is not less scientific than the more modern employment of a long Liston's splint with a perineal band for counter-extension. 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.