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THE TREATMENT OF FRACTURES. By R. Leriche, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Lyons. Edited by F. F. Burghard, C.B., M.S., F.R.C.S., formerly Consulting Surgeon to the Forces in France. Vol. I.—"Fractures Involving Joints." With 97 illustrations from original and specially prepared drawings.
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The author's primary object has been to produce a handbook of surgical therapeutics. But surgical therapeutics does not mean merely the technique of operation. Technique is, and should be, only a part of surgery, especially at the present time. The purely operative surgeon is a very incomplete surgeon in time of peace; "in time of war he becomes a public disaster; for operation is only the first act of the first dressing."
Vol. II.—"Fractures of the Shaft." With 156 illustrations from original and specially prepared drawings.
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Vol. I. of this work was devoted to Fractures Involving Joints; Vol. II. (which completes the work) treats of Fractures of the Shaft, and is conceived in the same spirit—that is, with a view to the production of a work on conservative surgical therapeutics.
The author strives on every page to develop the idea that anatomical conservation must not be confounded with functional conservation. The two things are not so closely allied as is supposed. There is no conservative surgery save where the function is conserved. The essential point of the treatment of diaphysial fractures consists in the early operative disinfection, primary or secondary, by an extensive sub-periosteal removal of fragments, based on exact physiological knowledge, and in conformity with the general method of treating wounds by excision. When this operation has been carefully performed with the aid of the rugine, with the object of separating and retaining the periosteum of all that the surgeon considers should be removed, the fracture must be correctly reduced and the limb immobilised.
FRACTURE OF THE LOWER JAW. By L. Imbert, National Correspondent of the Société de Chirurgie, and Pierre Réal, Dentist to the Hospitals of Paris. With a Preface by Medical Inspector-General Février. Edited by J. F. Colyer, F.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.D.S. With 97 illustrations in the text and five full-page plates.
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Previous to the present war no stomatologist or surgeon possessed any very extensive experience of this subject. Claude Martin, of Lyons, who perhaps gave more attention to it than anyone else, aimed particularly at the restoration of the occlusion of teeth, even at the risk of obtaining only fibrous union of the jaw. The authors of the present volume take the contrary view, maintaining the consolidation of the fracture is above all the result to be attained. The authors give a clear account of the various displacements met with in gunshot injuries of the jaw and of the methods of treatment adopted, the latter being very fully illustrated.
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