LECTURES AND ESSAYS BY WILLIAM H. BENNETT, F.R.C.S. ON THE USE OF MASSAGE AND EARLY PASSIVE MOVEMENTS IN RECENT FRACTURES AND OTHER COMMON SURGICAL INJURIES, AND THE TREATMENT OF INTERNAL DERANGEMENTS OF THE KNEEJOINT. THE PRESENT POSITION OF THE TREATMENT OF SIMPLE FRACTURES. VARIX, with especial reference to THROMBOSIS. 8vo.3s. 6d. VARICOSE VEINS OF THE LOWER EXTREMITIES. 8vo. 6s. VARICOCELE. A Practical Treatise. 8vo. 5s. ABDOMINAL HERNIA, including the Radical Cure. 8vo. 8s. 6d. LONGMANS, GREEN, & CO., 39 Paternoster Row, London New York and Bombay. TREATMENT OF SIMPLE FRACTURES OF THE LIMBS An Address DELIVERED IN OPENING A DISCUSSION AT THE MEETING OF THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION HELD AT IPSWICH, AUGUST 1900 BY WILLIAM H. BENNETT, F.R.C.S. SENIOR SURGEON TO ST GEORGE'S HOSPITAL MEMBER OF THE COURT OF EXAMINERS, ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS TO WHICH IS APPENDED A SUMMARY OF THE OPINIONS AND PRACTICE OF ABOUT 300 SURGEONS Reprinted, after revision, from the BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, Oct. 7, 1900 LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON NEW YORK AND BOMBAY 1900 All rights reserved AUTHOR'S NOTE In the following Address I have endeavoured as far as possible to avoid giving undue prominence to my own views, my main object being to submit an impartial analysis of the evidence of about three hundred practitioners who were good enough to give me information upon the subject. A summary of the information is appended, and I take advantage of this opportunity to tender to those who have helped me in the matter my most sincere thanks. 1 CHESTERFIELD STREET, MAYFAIR, LONDON: October 1900. W. H. B. |