A syllabus of surgical lectures on the nature and treatment of fractures, diseases of the joints, and deformities of the limbs and spine. Containing descriptions of the modes of applying twelve new apparatuses, illustrated by twelve plates ... / [Joseph Amesbury].

  • Amesbury, Joseph, 1795-1864
Date:
1827
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Credit: A syllabus of surgical lectures on the nature and treatment of fractures, diseases of the joints, and deformities of the limbs and spine. Containing descriptions of the modes of applying twelve new apparatuses, illustrated by twelve plates ... / [Joseph Amesbury]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. LECTUKE I. ON THE NATURE, CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, AND IMPORTANCE OF FRACTURES. The surgical signification of the term Fracture defined. Fractures of the long bones. Situations in which they most frequently occur. Causes of Fracture. Predisposing—remote. Symptoms. Crepitus—different kinds of. In some cases not easily discovered. The relative importance of other symptoms con¬ sidered—pain, swelling, redness, deformed ap¬ pearance of the limb, preternatural motion. Pathognomonic symptoms of fracture.