Excerpt from Lectures on Orthopedic Surgery The authors of this volume have undertaken to preserve the things of most value in the writings on orthopedic surgery Hugh Owen Thomas, modified by their own personal experience and convictions; they have endeavored to make a volume for the use of the student and the general practitioner and have omitted much that would be of interest and inserted much that may t be of interest to the orthopedic specialist. These lectures have been delivered by Dr. Ridlon in the Northwestern University Medical Schools, and many of them have been added to and amended by Mr. Jones. Some of the lectures, however, have t been read by Mr. Jones, and he should t be held responsible for any Americanisms that appear in these pages. When the publication of these lectures was commenced in the Philadelphia Medical Journal it was intended to cover the entire subject of orthopedic surgery and make a complete book, but the change in management and in type of the journal led to a discontinuance of the project, and the incomplete work is w offered with many misgivings and apologies. 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.