Orthopædic surgery : a handbook / by Charles Bell Keetley.

  • Keetley, Charles Bell.
Date:
1900
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    devoted much time, thought, and labour to studying deformi- ties and practising their treatment. Some parts of the book, e.g. those on the nature and causes of scoHosis, on' genu valgum, and on flat-foot, were pubHshed several years ago in periodical literature, and have now been re-edited. The substance of the chapter on Coxa Vara was recently read before the Medical Society of London. So far as the literature of the subject goes references to it and acknowledgments of indebtedness to various writers will be found in the text. Perhaps I should make special mention here of M. Pousson, to whose book my article on Osteoclasis is greatly indebted ; of M. Lannelongue, whose fine work on ' Tuberculose Vertebrale' led me to almost rewrite the pathological part of my own chapter on Spinal Caries ; and to V. Miculicz, Busch, and the late M. Bouvier. If I have been on the right track in Orthopaedic Surgery it is those three authors by whom I was chiefly placed there. The origin of all illustrations is carefully stated, except such as are from sketches and photographs by myself. But I was sorry to find, when it was too late to remedy the omission, that the names of MM. A. Karmanski and E. Berveiller had been removed from the blocks of the illustrations borrowed from M. Lannelongue for Chapter XVIL This was done without authority from either publishers, printers, or myself. I have to thank Mr. Edgar Willett and Dr. Andrewes for permission to j)hotograph specimens in St. Bartholomew's Hospital Museum, and Mr. F. Godart for the great j)ains he has taken with the engravings, and all my other friends who have lent me pictures and blocks. Not liking the frequent repetition of such phrases as * from a case sent to me by Dr. So-and-so,' I have used instead the expression ' from a case of Dr. So-and-so's,' although I have generally seen the patient. Fortunately Dr. Andrew Elliot had time to revise all the proofs before going