Excerpt from A Clinical Treatise on Fractures As the title indicates, the intention of this work is to treat the subject of Fractures in its clinical aspect. The matter presented is, in fact, a report of unpublished clinical lectures delivered by the author at the Pennsylvania Hospital, so revised and elaborated as to eliminate the elements of incompleteness of clinical delivery and lack of method necessarily incident to utilizing clinical material. The many details, too, of individual cases which may profitably be referred to in a clinical lecture have been generally omitted. It has also been thought desirable to avoid the restating of traditions which have become obsolete, the recording of statistics, and the formulating of methods of treatment long since abandoned; for, while such historical matter seems inseparable from a work of reference, it is t essential in a treatise intended for practical use. In the matter of the management of fractures it may be stated that while at times a choice between several methods is given, the author usually advises that form of treatment which in his own experience has proved most simple and effective. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.