Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2069

LEWIS ATTERBURY STIMSON (1844-1917) A treatise on dislocations. Lea Brothers 1888 [2] [v]-xx [17]-539 pp., 163 pp. 23.1 cm.

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Stimson followed his definitive Treatise on fractures (see No. 2068) with this major work on dislocations. He had hoped to publish this book two or three years earlier but found that he had to review a great deal more literature than he had originally anticipated. However, he found the effort well worth his time because it enabled him to consult many more original reports than would have otherwise been possible. As a result "a number of errors--some of them of long standing and wide circulation--have thus been corrected. . . ." (Preface, p. [v]). In the book Stimson introduced new methods of reducing and treating dislocations and also sought to group them in a few broad classes by distinguishing them chiefly by the direction of their primary displacement.

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