A description of the diseased conditions of the knee-joint which require amputation of the limb, and those conditions which are favourable to excision of the joint : with an explanation of the relative advantages of both operations as far as can be ascertained by cases properly authenticated. / by Peter Charle Price, ... Edited by Henry Smith.

  • Price, P. C. (Peter Charles), 1832-1864.
Date:
MDCCCLXV [1865]
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Credit: A description of the diseased conditions of the knee-joint which require amputation of the limb, and those conditions which are favourable to excision of the joint : with an explanation of the relative advantages of both operations as far as can be ascertained by cases properly authenticated. / by Peter Charle Price, ... Edited by Henry Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    PREFACE. I shall fully allude, in the Memoir of the author, to the circumstances under which the following Essay was com- posed, and the history of its rejection by the three members of the Council of the College of Surgeons who formed the Jacksonian Prize Committee. There has been no report made public as to the reasons which induced these gentle- men to take this step, and completely ignore the valuable mass of information which Mr. Price had collected on a subject which had, as yet, not taken its place in surgical literature. I have however heard, through sources which can be relied upon, that the Committee—one of whom only, be it remem- bered, had ever performed the operation of excision of the knee-joint, as far as is known at least—rejected the Essay on the grounds that all the conditions for the acquisition of the Prize were not fulfilled, and that Mr. Price had written rather an essay upon excision of the knee-joint than answered the questions proposed. T will grant that the author, in his zeal for the success of this lately revived mode of treatment, did devote the greater portion of the work to the consideration of excision of the knee-joint, and did not pay so much attention, as he might have done, to the comparison between this opera- tion and amputation; but I doubt not that Mr. Price felt, as all others must feel, that it was not amputation of the thigh about which the Council of the College of Surgeons required b 2