A treatise on fractures, luxations, and other affections of the bones / by P.J. Desault ... ; wherein his opinions and practice, in such cases, are stated and exemplified ; edited by Xav. Bichat ; with plates ; translated from the French by Charles Caldwell, M. D. ; with notes, and an appendix containing several late improvements in surgery.

  • Desault, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph), 1738-1795.
Date:
1805
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Credit: A treatise on fractures, luxations, and other affections of the bones / by P.J. Desault ... ; wherein his opinions and practice, in such cases, are stated and exemplified ; edited by Xav. Bichat ; with plates ; translated from the French by Charles Caldwell, M. D. ; with notes, and an appendix containing several late improvements in surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEMOIR XV. page On the Division of the Tendo Achillis, 355 MEMOIR XVI. On the Fracture of the Os Calcis, 374 MEMOIR XVII. On complicated Luxations of the Foot, 379 APPENDIX. ARTICLE I. Dr. Physick's, new and successful method of treating an old and obstinate fracture of the os humeri, 403 ARTICLE II. An account of Dr. Physick's improvement of Desault's apparatus for making permanent extension in oblique fractures of the os femoris, 407 ARTICLE III. Explanation of the third Plate, 409 in apposition. The English reader will naturally enough annex the same ideas to the word Apparatus, as used throughout the present work. I have, therefore, thought pi'oper to adopt it, ra- ther than to introduce a new or uncommon term, and am sure, that, for all practical purposes, it will be found sufficiently ex- pressive of the meaning of the original. And I am much more solicitous to become instrumental in giving some aid to the sur- geon in the practice of his profession, than to escape the censure of the fastidious critic. Trans.