Fractures of the femur and their treatment : inaugural-dissertation on receiving the degree of doctor of medicine and surgery presented to the Medical Faculty of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität of Berlin and publicly defended VII. March 1876 / by Levi C. Lane ; opponents Ad. Sohier, F. Hay, E.S. Peck.

  • Lane, Levi Cooper, 1833-1902.
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[1876]
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Credit: Fractures of the femur and their treatment : inaugural-dissertation on receiving the degree of doctor of medicine and surgery presented to the Medical Faculty of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität of Berlin and publicly defended VII. March 1876 / by Levi C. Lane ; opponents Ad. Sohier, F. Hay, E.S. Peck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -L lie fracture of the os femoris, on account of the proximity of the thigh to the trunk, as well as of the large size of the femoral bone, and also of the indispensable office which the latter performs in locomotion, is to he reckoned among the gravest of injuries: owing to this fact, its minute study has, in modern times, become a subject of emulation and sharp rivalry among the great names that have figured as practitioners of, and writers upon, surgery. Thus it called forth the thought of England’s greatest surgeon, Sir Astley Cooper, whose Essay on the Fracture of the Neck of the Thigh Bone will charm every reader of the work entitled biactuies and Dislocations of the Joints, in which book it is now incorporated; not only has the intrinsic meiit of this chapter given it a place among medical classics, but its clearness of method and practical character must ever remain an evidence of the talent of this great man and a monument to his genius. It is perhaps proper that the writer of this dissertation should state, at its commencement, that he intends herein to exclude all consideration of the phenomena exhibited in the reparative processes of fractured bones, and strictly to confine himself to the special surgery of the subject, furthermore, the ideas contained within this paper are not of theoretical origin, but are the result of his own observations in over one hundred cases of fracture of the thigh-bone that 1*