Part III, the diseases and injuries ‘of the bones and joints excepting those of the fetus: Part IV, deformities from acquired diseases of the nervous and muscular systems: Part V is a technical descrip- tion of the use of plaster-of-Paris, and of the way to make, fit and use some of the orthopedic appliances in vogue in this vicinity. While freely admitting the impossibility of an absolute classification of this sort because there are many deformities like coxa vara which arise from diverse causes, it is earnestly hoped that the student may be saved from confusing in his mind the identity of things essentially dissimilar like spondylitis and scoliosis, or congenital and acquired club-foot.
The writer desires to express his thanks to his colleagues and others who have helped him, especially to Professors Dwight and Bradford, of the Harvard Medical School, to Dr. Schulthess, of Zurich, whose exhaustive article on Scoliosis in Joachimsthals Handbuch der Orthopedischen Chirurgie has been freely used, and to Dr. Max Bohm now of Berlin, likewise to Dr. R. W. Lovett, from whose book on Lateral Curvature a chapter is bor- rowed; and for aid in illustrating to Dr. A. W. George, radi- ographer to the Children’s Hospital and of the Department of Anatomy.
Aucustus THORNDIKE. Boston, Massachusetts, September, 1907.
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