Cases of the excision of carious joints / by H. Park and P. F. Moreau ; with observations by James Jeffray.

  • Park, H. (Henry), 1745-1831.
Date:
1806
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Credit: Cases of the excision of carious joints / by H. Park and P. F. Moreau ; with observations by James Jeffray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    what is already too well known to every prac- titioner in furgery; and to attempt to adduce arguments or fadls in fupport of the above af- fertion, would be only taking pains to prove what is already pretty generally acknowledged. To alleviate in fome degree thefe evils, and to avert fome of the dreadful confequences, is the defign of thefe few (heets ; in which I hope to fhew, that in fome of the affections of the knee and elbow, in which amputation has hitherto been deemed indifpenfibly neceffary, Surgery has yet another refource, which, as far as my reading and experience enable me to judge, has not yet been attempted by any other prac- titioner ; and by which the limbs of perfons under the above circumftances may yet be pre- ferved, with fuch a fliare of the motions which Nature had originally allotted to them, as to be confiderably more ufeful than any invention which art has hitherto been able to fubllitute in their ftead. The refource I mean, is the tola/ extirpation of the At-ticulation^ or the entire removal of the extremities of all the bones which form the