On the surgery of the knee-joint and The responsibility placed on the physician and general practitioner by the modern progress of surgery : being the inaugural and retiring presidential addresses delivered before the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society, on October 7th, 1887, and May 4th, 1888, respectively / by C.B. Keetley.

  • Keetley, Charles Bell.
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[1889]
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Credit: On the surgery of the knee-joint and The responsibility placed on the physician and general practitioner by the modern progress of surgery : being the inaugural and retiring presidential addresses delivered before the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society, on October 7th, 1887, and May 4th, 1888, respectively / by C.B. Keetley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that I did not divide the patella transversely until I had seen a case of Mr. Golding-Bird's. He, I believe, had been anticipated by Volkmann, who got the start of all of us English surgeons in these matters, and who is, moreover, a genius. To Mosetig-Moorhof of Vienna, more than to anyone else, we owe the anti-tuberculous use of iodoform. I was using pure carbolic acid for the purpose when I heard of Mosetig-Moorhof's observations, and I had good results with it ; but iodoform has obvious and great advantages over a drug so caustic. I used to entirely cover the dressing with elastic bandage before the turf-moss pads came over. While house-surgeon in Birmingham, I learnt from Gamgee the value of pressure. Some British surgeons have also been working successfully with erasion, especially Wright of Manchester. If I needed anything to confirm my faith in the methods I have described, enough could be found in a recent paper by Professor Oilier of Lyons, the first authority in France on this subject, and second to none in Europe. The procedures he recommends are very similar to those in use at the West London. Such, gentlemen, is a brief outline of what can be done, and what I believe ought to be done, in cases of chronic knee-joint disease fitted for operative treatment. It is but an outline. Each division of the subject would suffice for a complete paper, but I think you would now be more wearied than you are, had my address been devoted wholly to some single question, such as how to drain the knee after excision, or how to dress it after erasion. I would have liked