Fractures - Treatment - Early works to 1800

Essays on several important subjects in surgery: chiefly on the nature and cure of fractures of the long bones of the extremities, particularly those of the Thigh and Leg, whether simple or compound; for which a new method of Retention is proposed. The whole illustrated with copper-plates. By John Aitken, Surgeon, Of the College and Incorporation of Surgeons in Edinburgh.