Excerpt from The New York Medical Times, Vol. 1: October, 1851Of the whole number of cases of which I have any memo randa, one was in the humerus, two in the forearm, two in the os femoris, and eight in the bones of the leg, seven underwent operations, and six got well by other means. Of the seven that were subjected to operations, one underwent amputation and recovered, three had setons passed through the ends, all of which were also reported to have been cured, nine submit ted to excision, drilling and the wire ligature, of these latter, one died, one recovered with the wire permanently imbedded in the bone, from which it could not be extracted, and the third, now six months after the operation, is still uncured. In the fatal case, as well as in the case subjected to amputation, the false joint was seated below the knee. In those that reco vered after wiring, it was in the forearm and in the cases treated by the seton, the humerus in one, the femur in another, and the tibia in another, was the seat of accident. In the ca ses that got well independent of Operation, the false joint was, with the exception of Case 13, situated in the bones of the leg.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.